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WALTER BENN MICHAELS
ADOLPH REED, JR.
Edited and with a Foreword by
Anton Jäger & Daniel Zamora



NO POLITICS BUT CLASS POLITICS



Paperback
Extent: 392 pages
Trim: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
ISBN: 9781912475575
Price: $30 / $10 (ebook)




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WALTER BENN MICHAELS is Professor of English at the University of Illi­nois Chicago. An influential scholar in the fields of literary theory and American literary history, Michaels is also a high-profile polemicist whose political writings have appeared in publications including The American Prospect and the London Review of Books.

ADOLPH REED, JR. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. A veteran activist and a prolific analyst of the politics of race and class, his books include Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era, Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene and The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives.

ANTON JÄGER is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium, working on the history of populism in the United States. Together with Daniel Zamora he is the co-author of an intellectual history of basic income.

DANIEL ZAMORA is Professor of Sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-author of The Last Man Takes LSD with Mitchell Dean and of Welfare for Markets with Anton Jäger.




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Adolph Reed Jr. is the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.

—Cornel West


Walter Benn Michaels is cunning, brilliant, acutely suggestive, exhilarating to read.

—Eric Lott


Wokelords and anti-racist liberals will be frustrated, enraged, and defeated. This book pushes us closer towards the uncompromising, bare-knuckled anti-capitalist movement we so desperately need.

—Cedric Johnson


An exhilarating journey that swaps the orthodoxies of contemporary progressive culture for a class politics rooted in universalism.

—James Bloodworth


Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels have been among the clearest voices critiquing the dominant race reductionism in American intellectual life and proposing a real egalitarian alternative.

—Bhaskar Sunkara


Anyone interested in the politics of race and class must push aside the dogma of identity and grapple with what Reed and Michaels have been arguing for decades.

—Jodi Dean



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