Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Don't you wonder: why is it necessary to declare me dead again and again? This is the question posed by Karl Marx in Howard Zinn's witty and insightful play on history. The premise of this one-man performance is that history's most famous, and oft-misrepresented, radical is resurrected after agitating with the authorities of the afterlife to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error, however, Marx lands in modern-day Soho, New York, rather than his old stomping ground in London, to make his case.

Here Howard Zinn, nationally known for his best-selling book A People's History of the United States, introduces us to the Karl Marx we never learned about in school--a most human of revolutionaries, driven by a deep passion for social justice. Along the way we meet Marx's wife Jenny, his children, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and a host of other characters.

Zinn's Marx in Soho rescues Marx's ideas and fighting spirit for a new generation and shows how, far from casting him to the grave, our troubled times need Marx more than ever.

Howard Zinn is the one of the nation's leading historians and champions of social justice. In addition to A People's History of the United States, his many books include You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train, which is also the title of a 2004 documentary on Zinn's life, starring Matt Damon, Alice Walker, and others.

Brian Jones is an African American teacher and activist based in New York City. He has performed Marx in Soho for audiences nationwide since 1999.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a world-renowned historian, author, playwright, and social activist best known for the perennially best-selling classic A People's History of the United States. His many highly acclaimed books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train; Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century; and Three Plays--The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus.

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original and Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America.

Dana Frank, author of the award-winning Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929, is professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her other works include Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism and Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments. She lives in Santa Cruz.

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ISBN 13	9780896085930
ISBN 10	0896085937
Title	Marx in Soho
Author	Howard Zinn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	South End Press
Year published	1999-07-01
Number of pages	88
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