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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: Sep 2020
Genre: Political Science - Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 162
Engaging stories in the form of Marxist journalism about US imperialism\r\n\r\nWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despaira lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people’s movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.\r\n\r\nDespite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Fasoalso assassinatedwho said: ‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.’\r\n\r\nWashington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.