An Impatient Life: A Memoir

An Impatient Life: A Memoir

by TariqAli (Author), Daniel Bensaid (Author)

Synopsis

In the classic tradition of the philosopher - activist, Daniel Bensai d tells the story of a life deeply entwined with the history of both the French and the international Left. From his family bistro in a staunchly red neighborhood of Toulouse to the founding of the Jeunesses communistes re volutionnaires in the 1960s, from the joyous explosion of May 1968 to the painful experience of defeat in Latin America, from the re-reading of Marx to the Marrano trail, Bensai d relates a life of ideological and practical struggle in which he unflinchingly sought to understand capitalism without ever succumbing to its temptations.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: 1
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 31 Aug 2013

ISBN 10: 1781681082
ISBN 13: 9781781681084

Media Reviews
France's leading Marxist public intellectual Tariq Ali Daniel's death is like a wound, not a sadness. A loss which leaves us heavier. However, this weight is the opposite of a burden; it is a message composed, not with words, but with decisions and acts and injuries. John Berger Daniel Bensai d was my 'distant companion' ... With his disappearance, the intellectual, activist, political, and what we might call, even though the adjective is today obscure in meaning, 'revolutionary' world has changed. Alain Badiou
Author Bio
DANIEL BENSAi D (1946 - 2010) was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and a leader for many years of the Fourth International. His many books include Walter Benjamin, sentinelle messianique; Jeanne de guerre lasse; Eloge de la politique profane; and Marx for Our Times.