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The American as Anarchist

Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism

David DeLeon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

1979
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-2126-4 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1978. When compared with socialist and communist systems in other nations, the impact of radicalism on American society seems almost nonexistent. David DeLeon challenges this position, however, by presenting a historical and theoretical perspective for understanding the scope and significance of dissent in America. From Anne Hutchinson in colonial New England to the New Left of the 1960s, DeLeon underscores a tradition of radical protest that has endured in American history—a tradition of native anarchism that is fundamentally different from the radicalism of Europe, the Soviet Union, or nations of the Third World. DeLeon shows that a profound resistance to authority lies at the very heart of the American value system.
The first part of the book examines how Protestant belief, capitalism, and even the American landscape itself contributed to the unique character of American dissent. DeLeon then looks at the actions and ideologies of all major forms of American radicalism, both individualists and communitarians, from laissez-faire liberals to anarcho-capitalists, from advocates of community control to syndicalists. In the book's final part, DeLeon argues against measuring the American experience by the standards of communism and other political systems. Instead he contends that American culture is far more radical than that of any socialist state and the implications of American radicalism are far more revolutionary than forms of Marxism-Leninism.

David DeLeon is a professor of history at Howard University. He specializes in American intellectual and religious history. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers (at the University of California, Berkeley) and has written prize-winning radio scripts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Foreword
Part I. The Genesis of Revelation
Chapter 1. Conscience and Community
Chapter 2. Capitalism and Community
Chapter 3. Space and Community
Part II. Jeremiads
Chapter 4. Liberalism
Chapter 5. Right Libertarianism
Chapter 6. Left Libertarianism
Chapter 7. Statist Radicalism
Part III. Revival and Reformation, 1960-77
Chapter 8. Old Visions of the New World
Chapter 9. The Future of the Radical Past
Notes
General Reference Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.1979
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-8018-2126-6 / 0801821266
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-2126-4 / 9780801821264
Zustand	Neuware