David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sunderland University. Before that, he worked as an Education Officer for the Trades Union Congress in London. He gained his MA in Modern History at Oxford University in 1995, and his PhD at Sheffield University in 1998. He has lectured at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Ormskirk, at Rhodes University in South Africa and at Nottingham Trent University.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Dissident Marxism 1917-19893. Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: Questioning the Soviet Path4. Karl Korsch: Marxism and Philosophy5. Georges Henein: Surrealism and Socialism6. Dona Torr, E. P. Thompson: Socialist History7. Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Monopoly Capital8. Walter Rodney, African Socialist9. Harry Braverman: Work and Resistance10. Samir Amin: Theorising Underdevelopment11. David Widgery: The Poetics of Propaganda12. The Dissident TraditionFurther Reading

'A salutory antidote to oversimple ideas of an homogenous left. David Renton's round-up of rebels and resisters gives voice to suppressed traditions of left dissent which are of great relevance in our times.' Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester 'A readable and interesting account of somewhat less-known strands of Marxism - strands that might rescue its libertarian image and potential from the tarnish of Stalinism and kindred authoritarian left projects...Broaches ideas that are important and offers an alternative perspective on Marxism to the stagnant and inaccurate image that has dominated both much activism and much scholarship in recent years.' Progress in Human Geography

David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sunderland University. Before that, he worked as an Education Officer for the Trades Union Congress in London. He gained his MA in Modern History at Oxford University in 1995, and his PhD at Sheffield University in 1998. He has lectured at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Ormskirk, at Rhodes University in South Africa and at Nottingham Trent University.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Dissident Marxism 1917-19893. Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: Questioning the Soviet Path4. Karl Korsch: Marxism and Philosophy5. Georges Henein: Surrealism and Socialism6. Dona Torr, E. P. Thompson: Socialist History7. Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Monopoly Capital8. Walter Rodney, African Socialist9. Harry Braverman: Work and Resistance10. Samir Amin: Theorising Underdevelopment11. David Widgery: The Poetics of Propaganda12. The Dissident TraditionFurther Reading

'A salutory antidote to oversimple ideas of an homogenous left. David Renton's round-up of rebels and resisters gives voice to suppressed traditions of left dissent which are of great relevance in our times.' Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester 'A readable and interesting account of somewhat less-known strands of Marxism - strands that might rescue its libertarian image and potential from the tarnish of Stalinism and kindred authoritarian left projects...Broaches ideas that are important and offers an alternative perspective on Marxism to the stagnant and inaccurate image that has dominated both much activism and much scholarship in recent years.' Progress in Human Geography

David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sunderland University. Before that, he worked as an Education Officer for the Trades Union Congress in London. He gained his MA in Modern History at Oxford University in 1995, and his PhD at Sheffield University in 1998. He has lectured at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Ormskirk, at Rhodes University in South Africa and at Nottingham Trent University.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Dissident Marxism 1917-19893. Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: Questioning the Soviet Path4. Karl Korsch: Marxism and Philosophy5. Georges Henein: Surrealism and Socialism6. Dona Torr, E. P. Thompson: Socialist History7. Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Monopoly Capital8. Walter Rodney, African Socialist9. Harry Braverman: Work and Resistance10. Samir Amin: Theorising Underdevelopment11. David Widgery: The Poetics of Propaganda12. The Dissident TraditionFurther Reading

'A salutory antidote to oversimple ideas of an homogenous left. David Renton's round-up of rebels and resisters gives voice to suppressed traditions of left dissent which are of great relevance in our times.' Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester 'A readable and interesting account of somewhat less-known strands of Marxism - strands that might rescue its libertarian image and potential from the tarnish of Stalinism and kindred authoritarian left projects...Broaches ideas that are important and offers an alternative perspective on Marxism to the stagnant and inaccurate image that has dominated both much activism and much scholarship in recent years.' Progress in Human Geography