{"product_id":"incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day-9781629631073","title":"Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.\" So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole--a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green--out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies--are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and a professor at the University of Toledo. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe London Hanged\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Magna Carta Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStop, Thief!\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAlbion's Fatal Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Many Headed Hydra\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles have appeared in publications that include \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York University Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSocial History\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50361460359442,"sku":"9781629631073","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_273875a7-1920-492d-9737-7f193d615e31.jpg?v=1728372465","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day-9781629631073","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}