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“This remarkable collection demonstrates the compassion and intelligence of ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
one of America’s greatest public intellectuals. To his explorations of everything LUCASVILLE
from Freedom Schools to the Battle of Seattle, Staughton Lynd brings lyricism, FEB 2011
rigour, a historian’s eye for irony, and an unshakable commitment to social 978-1-60486-224-9
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of ‘hope’ and ‘change,’ Lynd guides us to understanding what, very concretely, 256 PAGES
those words might mean and how we might get there. These essays are as HISTORY/PENOLOGY
vital and relevant now as the day they were written, and a source of inspiration
for activists young and old.”
—Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing
From Here To There collects unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian
Staughton Lynd. The common theme is the conviction that humankind should reject capitalism and
imperialism, and seek a transition to another world.
The first section of the Reader collects reminiscences and analyses of the 1960s. A second section
offers a vision of how historians might immerse themselves in popular movements while maintaining
their obligation to tell the truth. In a last group of presentations entitled “Possibilities” and a three-piece
“Conclusion,” Lynd explores what nonviolence, resistance to empire as a way of life, and working class
self-activity might mean in the 21st century.
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“Here’s a book that demonstrates not only that another world is possible, but
that it already exists, has existed, and shows an endless potential to burst
through the artificial walls and divisions that currently imprison us. An exquisite
contribution to the literature of human freedom, and coming not a moment too
soon.”—David Graeber, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
the world.” Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these
conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement.
The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist
counter-summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and
Belgrade, “intentional” communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American
democratic practices, the Workersʼ Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized
councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, anti-war movements, and
prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The
book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism
and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible.
Andrej Grubacic is a dissident from the Balkans. A radical historian and sociologist, he is the author
of Globalization and Refusal and the forthcoming titles: Hidden History of American Democracy and
Donʼt Mourn, Balkanize! A fellow traveler of Zapatista-inspired direct action movements, and a co-
founder of Global Balkans Network and Balkan Z Magazine, he is a visiting professor of sociology at
the University of San Francisco.
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“These thoughtful essays offer us a vivid picture of the Balkans experience from
the inside, with its richness and complexity, tragedy and hope, and lessons from
which we can all draw inspiration and insight.”
—Noam Chomsky, MIT
“I cannot think of another work that even tries to accomplish what Andrej
Grubacic has artfully undertaken in this volume.”
—Michael Albert, author of Parecon
“This book of essays shows a deep grasp of Yugoslav history and social theory. It
is a groundbreaking book, representing a bold departure from existing ideas, and
an imaginative view to how a just society in the Balkans might be constructed.”
—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
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Donʼt Mourn, Balkanize! is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav
space after the dismantling of the country. In this collection of essays, commentaries and interviews,
written between 2002 and 2010, Andrej Grubacic speaks about the politics of balkanization—about
the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, neoliberal structural
adjustment, humanitarian intervention, supervised independence of Kosovo, occupation of Bosnia, and
other episodes of power which he situates in the long historical context of colonialism, conquest, and
intervention.
But he also tells the story of the balkanization of politics, of the Balkans seen from below. A space of
bogumils—those medieval heretics who fought against Crusades and churches—and a place of anti-
Ottoman resistance; a home to hajduks and klefti, pirates and rebels; a refuge of feminists and socialists,
of anti-fascists and partisans; of new social movements of occupied and recovered factories; a place of
dreamers of all sorts struggling both against provincial “peninsularity” as well as against occupations,
foreign interventions and that process which is now, in a strange inversion of history, often described
by that fashionable term, “balkanization.”
For Grubacic, political activist and radical sociologist, Yugoslavia was never just a country—it was an
idea. Like the Balkans itself, it was a project of inter-ethnic coexistence, a trans-ethnic and pluricultural
space of many diverse worlds. Political ideas of inter-ethnic cooperation and mutual aid as we had
known them in Yugoslavia were destroyed by the beginning of the 1990s—disappeared in the combined
madness of ethno-nationalist hysteria and humanitarian imperialism. This remarkable collection
chronicles political experiences of the author who is himself a Yugoslav, a man without a country; but
also, as an anarchist, a man without a state. This book is an important reading for those on the Left who
are struggling to understand the intertwined legacy of inter-ethnic conflict and inter-ethnic solidarity in
contemporary, post-Yugoslav history.
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