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Bonfire of the Certainties: the Second Human Revolution

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An analysis of the implications of capital's 'overdevelopment' and its consequences in creating the ecological, economic and political contradictions of the global system, right down to our society's cellular unit, the family. The necessary 'second human revolution, and the problem of 'agency' in achieving it.

208 pages, Paperback

Published June 12, 2013

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Cliff Slaughter

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British Trotskyist.

Slaughter was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

After leaving the Communist Party he joined Gerry Healy's "The Club" he stayed for 30 years with the affiliated organisations Socialist Labour League and the Workers Revolutionary Party.


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December 13, 2021
Book by former leading Workers Revolutionary Party member and socialist intellectual Cliff Slaughter.

Whatever one might say about his conclusions, the book itself is a well written and interesting read.

Lots of Grundrisse quoting, if you’re into that sort of thing.

István Mészáros has evidently had a massive influence on Slaughter’s conceptions, although there are still traces of his past life and thought in these pages.

(This is the Lulu version, which presumably explains why the cover design is so wonky)

I interviewed Cliff Slaughter about this book and his life in politics in general. It was published in 2020 on the Splits and Fusions blog, an archive of Trotskyist, Left-Communist, Communist and related publications.

https://splitsandfusions.wordpress.co...
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