Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

By: Peter Linebaugh

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Paperback | 1 April 2016

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"May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil." So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st.

It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole--a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green--out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies--are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, Jose Marti, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

Industry Reviews

"There is not a more important historian living today. Period." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"E. P. Thompson, you may rest now. Linebaugh restores the dignity of the despised luddites with a poetic grace worthy of the master." --Mike Davis, author, Planet of Slums
"Ideas can be beautiful too, and the ideas Peter Linebaugh provokes and maps in this history of liberty are dazzling reminders of what we have been and who we could be." --Rebecca Solnit, author, Storming the Gates of Paradise
"Written to mark May Day, the international workers' holiday, Linebaugh's 11 playful and elegiac treatises motivate, enrage, and inform." --Publishers Weekly
"Linebaugh goes a long way towards encouraging and fanning radical socialist dreaming and scheming in the present, dreaming not as escape but as opening a door to possibilities, and creating a light on the hill for the future." --Rowan Cahill, Labour History Melbourne

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