Carl Boggs

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Carl Boggs (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic who is social science and film studies professor at the National University in Los Angeles.[1]

Career

He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970. He has also taught at the University of South Carolina and Washington University.[2][3]

He has written numerous books on subjects including social theory, European and American politics, and military policy. He has contributed to several socialist organizations and journals,[4] such as Solidarity, the LA Socialist Community School,[5] and the Free Speech Movement.[6]

He received a Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award.[7][8]

Publications

Books

  • Boggs, Carl. Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity. 'New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-000-46147-3
  • Boggs, Carl. Impasse Of European Communism. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-30846-9
  • Boggs, Carl. Fascism Old and New American Politics at the Crossroads. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018. ISBN 978-1-351-04970-2
  • Boggs, Carl. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture. Routledge , 2017. ISBN 978-1-315-08627-9
  • Boggs, Carl. Origins of the Warfare State: World War II and the Transformation of American Politics.Routledge 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-20435-5
  • Boggs, Carl. Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy. 2016. ISBN 978-1-61205-871-9
  • Boggs, Carl. Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power. Routledge 2016. ISBN 978-1-136-16436-1
  • Boggs, Carl. Ecology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.ISBN 978-1-137-28226-2
  • Boggs, Carl. Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 978-0-230-11574-3
  • Boggs, Carl. The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination. London: Pluto, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7453-2946-8 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1208 libraries[9]
  • Boggs, James. The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2009. Originally published in The Monthly Review, 1962 ISBN 978-0-85345-015-3
  • Boggs, Carl. Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7425-2772-0
  • Boggs, Carl, and Thomas Pollard. A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7425-3289-2
  • Boggs, Carl. The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere. New York: Guilford Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-57230-504-5
  • Boggs, Carl. The Socialist Tradition : from Crisis to Decline. New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 978-0-415-90669-2
  • Boggs, Carl. Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.ISBN 978-0-7914-1544-3
  • Boggs, Carl. Social Movements and Political Power: Emerging Forms of Radicalism in the West. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87722-447-1
  • Boggs, Carl. The Two Revolutions: Antonio Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984.ISBN 978-0-89608-225-0
  • Boggs, Carl, and David Plotke. The Politics of Eurocommunism: Eclipse of the Bolshevik Legacy in the West. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1980. ISBN 978-0-919618-32-9

Journal articles

  • Boggs, Carl. "Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers’ control." Radical America 11.6 (1977): 99-122.
  • Boggs C. Social Capital and Political Fantasy: Robert Putnam's" Bowling Alone". Theory and Society. 2001 Apr 1.30(2):281-97.
  • Boggs C. The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America. Theory and Society. 1997 Dec 1.26(6):741-80.
  • Boggs C, Pollard T. Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism. New Political Science. 2006 Sep 1.28(3):335-51.
  • Boggs C. Revolutionary process, political strategy, and the dilemma of power. Theory and Society. 1977 Sep 1.4(3):359-93.

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