

List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: The Origins of Neoleftismġ Leftism and the New Tragedy of Culture in the Early Work of Georg Lukács Revolutionary Forms Creative Destruction A Cursed Book: History and Class Consciousness Flashes on the HorizonĢ The Antifascist New Left Quality, Not Quantity Educating the Org/New Beginning Sex and Fascism Internal Democracy and External Arrests “Everything Is Possible!”ģ Exile and the Spanish Experiment Antifascists without Borders Mobilizing for Spain POUM, Militias, and Free WomenĤ Revolutionary Hope and Despair A German Popular Front? Wartime Europe and Americaĥ Postwar New Beginning Restarting the Left in Occupied Germany B e rtolt Br echt, “E v e ry t h i ng N e w Is Bet t e r t h a n E v e ry t h i ng Ol d” And even if it isn’t Everything new Is better than everything old. This superficial rabble, crazy for novelties Which never wears its boot soles out Never reads its books to the end Keeps forgetting its thoughts This is the world’s Natural hope.
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