{"product_id":"the-politics-of-betrayal-9780719088162","title":"The Politics of Betrayal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow and why do so many radicals betray the cause?  What implications does it have for left politics?  Were the ex-radicals right to become conservatives?  This book, the first of its kind, answers these and more questions. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: a road well travelled\u003cbr\u003eFrom radical to renegade\u003cbr\u003eStructure and argument of the book\u003cbr\u003eA note on terms and sources\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Worlds turned upside down\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to part I\u003cbr\u003e1. Turncoats and collaborationists: early twentieth century renegades \u003cbr\u003eThe New York intellectuals and the anti-Stalinist left\u003cbr\u003e2. ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’…drop back in: ‘60s ex-radicals\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-first century fox: Christopher Hitchens\u003cbr\u003eConclusion to part I\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The experience of defeat\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to part II\u003cbr\u003e3. WWI: a defeat borne of nationalist bloodshed\u003cbr\u003eMother of all defeats: the tragedy of the Russian revolution and the rise of Stalinism \u003cbr\u003eThe post-war political and economic contexts\u003cbr\u003e4. 1960s radicals and political defeat: a lost cause?\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Hitchens: defeat post-poned?\u003cbr\u003e5. The full force of the law: defeat by state repression?\u003cbr\u003eState repression in the 1960s and 1970s\u003cbr\u003eConclusion to part II\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Flawed radicals\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to part III\u003cbr\u003e6. Flawed early twentieth century radicals: Mussolini, Parvus, and co.\u003cbr\u003e‘The god that failed’, and other disillusionments\u003cbr\u003e7. Overstated radicals\u003cbr\u003eFlawed ‘60s radicals: gulags, radical stuntmen, and other maladies\u003cbr\u003eLeft Thatcherite: the flawed radicalism of Christopher Hitchens\u003cbr\u003e8. For thirty pieces of silver?\u003cbr\u003eMussolini: mercenary for imperialism\u003cbr\u003eParvus, the ‘Marxist millionaire’\u003cbr\u003eThe New York intellectuals: cold warriors for cash?\u003cbr\u003eFrom Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin and other ‘60s sell-outs\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Hitchens: Oedipal child returns to the establishment?\u003cbr\u003eConclusion to part III\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The renegade ‘mentality’\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to part IV\u003cbr\u003e9. Psychohistory\u003cbr\u003eMarxism, structuralism, and psychohistory\u003cbr\u003eThe mentality of early twentieth century renegades: Mussolini, Parvus and others\u003cbr\u003eAdventurers to the end? Pankhurst Walsh, Stephensen, and Mosley\u003cbr\u003e10. Arthur Koestler, the twentieth century ‘sceptic’, and other cold war pilgrims\u003cbr\u003eFrom radicalism to fadism: Rubin, Cleaver and fellow ‘60s searchers\u003cbr\u003e‘Hypocritchens’\u003cbr\u003eConclusion to part IV\t\t\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884286390615,"sku":"9780719088162","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-politics-of-betrayal-9780719088162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}