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Daniel Bensaïd An Impatient Life: A Memoir, Verso: London, 2013; 358 pp: 139781781681084, £25 Reviewed by John McIlroy, Middlesex University, UK for Capital and Class.
Christophe Nick begins his account of the French far left with a half-truth: ‘you don’t become a Trotskyist by accident’ (2002: (...)
Review: Daniel Bensaïd. An Impatient Life, A Memoir. London: Verso, 2013. 358 pages.
Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) was one of the most respected theorists to emerge from the 1960s radicals of Western Europe. Always inclined to think “outside the box,” waving aside venerable dogmas and (...)
Review : Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life : A Memoir, translated by David Fernbach, with an introduction by Tariq Ali, Verso Books, 2014. 336 pp. There are several problems with the use of the term, ‘the sixties generation’. To begin with, it tends to play into the dubious narrative of youthful (...)
Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life: A Memoir, published by Verso Books.
“When great hopes have lead in their wings,” writes the French revolutionary Daniel Bensaïd, “little ones spring up like mushrooms on the ground, in everyday resistance and miniscule conspiracies” (6). Bensaïd died in January (...)
Jane Shallice reviews An Impatient Life: A Memoir (Verso, 2013) by Daniel Bensaïd and considers what the Left can learn from these beautiful memoirs
Why should you read this book? Written by a French Trotskyist, who died in 2010, and of whom few have heard and even fewer knew? A philosopher and (...)
Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life, trans. David Fernbach (Verso, 2013).
This absorbing, affecting memoir is a beautiful testament to a richly productive and dignified life. Daniel Bensaïd spent over forty years as a partisan of the revolutionary left in France, writing, campaigning, organising (...)
Dheisha Refugee Camp, 01/24/2010
Dear Comrades
We would like to share our condolences and deep sadness since the respected leader Daniel Bensaïd passed away. It was a very big loss, not only for his followers, but also for all the people who believed in his approach to reach common goals. (...)
Thousands of people gathered at La Mutualité in Paris on Sunday, January 24, 2010 to render homage to Daniel Bensaïd. Hosted by Fred Borras and Myriam Martin, both from the leadership of the NPA and from Toulouse, like Daniel, this was an emotional and militant act of remembrance to his memory. (...)
Pierre, my deepest condolence for Daniel Bensaid.
We are also sad about his passing.
Yen (Philippines) Korea
As we commemorate the passing of Daniel Bensaid, who spent his whole life for workers, the people and revolution – To Bensaid, a comrade who devoted himself to awakening workers (...)
The French radical philosopher and political leader, Daniel Bensaïd, died Tuesday morning after fighting a painful cancer for several months at the end of close to 15 years of living with AIDS.
One of the key figures of the French student revolt of 1968, Bensaïd was a prominent founding member (...)
Britain
London meeting to celebrate Daniel Bensaïd’s life and work
Activist-academics Gilbert Achcar, Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos are among the speakers invited to address the memorial meeting for Daniel Bensaïd. The gathering on Tuesday 9 February will celebrate the life of (...)
On Tuesday January 12, 2010 our friend Daniel Bensaid, “Bensa” died. Those familiar with Daniel knew he was incurably ill, and had regretfully expected for some weeks news which, though we knew it to be inevitable, we always fought to believe would not come.
In Daniel we have lost one of the (...)
Dear Comrades
It is with great sadness that your comrades in SA hear of the death of Daniel, a comrade who inspired us with his strategic insights, armed us with his Marxism and will be remembered for the good fight he fought for all humanity.
Brian Ashley (South Africa)
www.amandla.org.za (...)
The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, who has died aged 63 of cancer, was one of the most gifted Marxist intellectuals of his generation. In 1968, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, he helped to form the Mouvement du 22 Mars (the 22 March Movement), the organisation that helped to detonate the (...)
Russia
Comrades,
The death of Daniel Bensaïd is an enormous loss for the international socialist movement. He was one of the best representatives of the 1960s generation, one of the few who preserved this generation’s ideals and aspirations and passed them on to us. The broad, creative and (...)
Marxist philosopher Daniel Bensaïd died of cancer in Paris last Tuesday; he was sixty-four.
Co-founder of the LCR (the communist revolutionary league), then of the NPA (the new anti-capitalist party), Daniel Bensaïd contributed, through his works and his militant action, to re-open in a (...)
Gravely ill for some months, our comrade Daniel Bensaïd died this morning. A revolutionary militant since his youth, he was one of the founders of the JCR (Revolutionary Communist Youth) in 1966 and then one of the leaders of the Movement of the 22nd of March and and in the movement of May 1968 (...)
Daniel Bensaïd (25 March 1946-12 January 2010)
The SWP’s Alex Callinicos has sent the following message to comrades in the NPA.
It was with the deepest sorrow that we learned the terrible news of Daniel’s death. It is particularly sad coming as it does so soon after Chris Harman’s death. (...)
Daniel left us today, Tuesday the 12th of January 2010. Born in 1946 he gave his life to the cause of defending revolutionary Marxist ideas right to the end.
He was one of the founders of the Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire (JCR - Revolutionary Communist Youth) and the Ligue Communiste (...)
New Socialist – NS received this review on the same day that we received the sad news of Daniel Bensaid’s death. An obituary in English of this important French socialist thinker and leader is online here: François Sabado, Daniel Bensaïd: militant, intellectual, friend Strategies of Resistance (...)
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