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Marxism and the Call of the Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics
by Bob Avakian and Bill Martin
"… so important that it should stand on the shelf of everyone who cares about the destiny of the political Left … marks the beginning of a new approach."
— from the Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
"At this dark time in the history of our country and of the world, we need some new conversations about Marx and the socialist tradition – conversations free of dogmatism, open to ideas from all sides, but oriented in a progressive direction and eager to learn from thinking critically within the Marxist tradition. This book provides us with one model of what those kinds of conversations can be like."
— Allen Wood, author of Karl Marx and Kant’s Ethical Thought
"This brilliant, lively, and scholarly attempt to define communism's present role in addressing the need to remake our world is especially timely in the face of the policies and actions of the Bush administration. Bob Avakian and Bill Martin are to be commended for their steadfast endeavors to bring about a new society. We owe them both our gratitude for this monumental effort to move our world toward justice and righteousness."
— Rev. George W. Webber, President Emeritus, New York Theological Seminary
“Perhaps I am being willfully naive in saying this, but I think that most people in their heart of hearts understand that the system is not a good one, that it is fundamentally unfair and often quite horrible. Surely many people understand, too, that we can only do so many nasty things to the planet and expect it to remain a place that sustains human life. Some of this understanding is even expressed in desperate attempts to deny these things. I am pleased to talk with anyone who believes in the necessity for systemic change, but Bob Avakian is in a special category for me, because he is not only engaged with the attempt to theorize the world and what it would take to change it, but he is also playing a special role in organizing and leading that change.”
-- Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, in introduction to Marxism and the Call of the Future
