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No Less Than Mystic by John Medhurst
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Aug 22, 2017 | ISBN 9781910924471

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“The book is very comprehensive and insightful, and linked in perceptive ways to current affairs.”
—Noam Chomsky


“Drawing on relevant scholarship and primary texts….Medhurst seeks to dispel the mystique still surrounding the Russian revolutionary leader.  Most non-Leninist leftists will sympathise with Medhurst’s aims”.
—Publishers Weekly

The brilliance of Medhurst’s political histories is his sharp eye for the pivot points and the alternative routes history could have taken. Or, put another way – alternate histories are buried in his actual histories. He will lead you to fly off into fascinating could-have-beens, big ones that start with small corrected missteps or slightly different arrangements of personalities. There are wonders compressed in his books.
This is a big, energetic, ambitious book that deserves every success. A hell of a performance.
—Warren Ellis, author of TRANSMETROPOLITAN, NORMAL, RED and GUN MACHINE


“No Less than Mystic is a stunning work of synthetic scholarship which addresses one of the great historical questions of the modern epoch: was the Russian Revolution the worst thing ever to happen to socialism? No Less than Mystic makes a compelling case that it was. Arguing from a radical democratic, libertarian socialist perspective that is as relevant today as in 1917, Medhurst makes the strongest possible riposte to recent fashionable rehabilitations of Leninism. “This account makes no concession to the canard that the failure of revolutionary socialism is always inevitable, but demonstrates that while socialism with democracy may be difficult, socialism without democracy will always fail.”
—Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London. Author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism.

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