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I want to believe : posadism, UFOs, and apocalypse communism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gittlitz, A. M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Communism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Tragic Century
  • 1. Commentaries on the Infancy of Comrade Posadas
  • 2. Revolutionary Youth or Patriotic Youth?
  • 3. The Death Throes of Capitalism
  • 4. The Origins of Posadism
  • 5. Where are we Going?
  • Part II: The Posadist Fourth International
  • 6. The Flying International
  • 7. The Role of Anti-Imperialist and Revolutionary Militants, the Role of Trotskyists, the Program, and Tasks During and After the Atomic War
  • 8. The Macabre Farce of the Supposed Death of Guevara
  • 9. Flying Saucers, the Process of Matter and Energy, Science, the Revolutionary and Working-Class Struggle, and the Socialist Future of Mankind
  • 10. The Accident
  • 11. Hombrecitos
  • 12. Volver
  • 13. What Exists Cannot Be True
  • 14. Arrival of Comrade Homerita to the House
  • Part III: Neo-Posadism
  • 15. Historical Sincerity
  • 16. Why Don't Extraterrestrials Make Public Contact?
  • 17. UFOs to the People
  • 18. On the Function of the Joke and Irony in History
  • Timeline
  • Notes
  • Index