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A Hero from Capitalism’s Hells: Mike Davis and the Fighting Spirit of Socialist Possibility
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Palmer, Bryan D. (Author)
Title
A Hero from Capitalism’s Hells: Mike Davis and the Fighting Spirit of Socialist Possibility
Abstract
An illustrated, life-and times portrait of Mike Davis (1946-2022), the American writer, activist, urban theorist, and historian.
Publication
Labour / Le Travail
Volume
91
Pages
227-285
Date
Spring 2023
Language
en
ISSN
1911-4842
Short Title
A Hero from Capitalism’s Hells
Accessed
6/6/23, 7:57 PM
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Notes
Abstract by Desmond Maley.
Partial contents note: Mike and the mythologies of mercurialism -- Born under a bad sign -- Sixties schoolings -- A Stalinist sojourn -- “A working-class hero is something to be” -- Marxist maverick -- At New Left Review -- Writing the modern macabre in southern California -- Global political ecology -- Pandemics and slums -- The romance of the 1960s -- Plain, old-time socialist -- “We’ll see what happens” -- To the poor always.
Co-published in Labour/Le Travail and New Left Review with minor editorial revisions.
Citation
Palmer, B. D. (2023). A Hero from Capitalism’s Hells: Mike Davis and the Fighting Spirit of Socialist Possibility. Labour / Le Travail, 91, 227–285. https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v91.0012
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