Carl Boggs (born 22 July 1937) is a

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and

film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. ...

professor at the

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in Los Angeles. He received a Ph. D. in Political Science from the

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in 1970. He has also taught at the University of South Carolina and Washington University. He has written numerous books on subjects including

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and

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, and

military policy Military policy (also called defence policy or defense policy) is public policy dealing with multinational security and the military. It comprises the measures and initiatives that governments do or do not take in relation to decision-making and ...

. He has contributed to several

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

organizations and journals, such as

Solidarity (United States) Solidarity is a revolutionary multi-tendency socialist organization in the United States, associated with the journal ''Against the Current''. Solidarity is an organizational descendant of the International Socialists, a Third Camp Marxist org ...

, the LA Socialist Community School, and the

Free Speech Movement The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The Movement was informally under the central leadership of B ...

. He received a Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award.

Publications

Books

* Boggs, Carl. ''Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity''. 'New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. * Boggs, Carl. ''Impasse Of European Communism. '' Routledge, 2021. **Review by Richard J. Willey ''American Political Science Review '', Volume 77 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 769 - 770 * Boggs, Carl. ''Fascism Old and New American Politics at the Crossroads''. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018. * Boggs, Carl. ''The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture''. Routledge , 2017. (Cited 198 times, according to

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* Boggs, Carl. ''Origins of the Warfare State: World War II and the Transformation of American Politics''.Routledge 2017. * Boggs, Carl. ''Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy. ''2016. * Boggs, Carl. ''Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power''. Routledge 2016. * Boggs, Carl. ''Ecology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. * Boggs, Carl. ''Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. * Boggs, Carl. ''The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination.'' London: Pluto, 2010. According to

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, the book is held in 1208 librarieshttps://www.worldcat.org/title/crimes-of-empire-rogue-superpower-and-world-domination/oclc/780812760 * 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 * Boggs, Carl.'' Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War.'' Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. * Boggs, Carl, and Thomas Pollard. ''A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema''. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. * Boggs, Carl. ''The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere.'' New York: Guilford Press, 2001. (Cited 536 times, according to

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=Carl+Boggs&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33 Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Oct. 24 2021) **Review, Tim Duvall (2001) '' Democracy & Nature'', 7:1, 205-208, * Boggs, Carl. ''The Socialist Tradition : from Crisis to Decline''. New York: Routledge, 1995. * Boggs, Carl. ''Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity. ''Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. (Cited 213 times, according to

**Review, by Steve Vieux ''Critical Sociology'' Vol 21, Issue 1, 1995. :Translated into Chinese by Jun Li and Hairong Cai 知识分子与现代性的危机 / Zhi shi fen zi yu xian dai xing de wei ji Nanjing, 2002 * Boggs, Carl. ''Social Movements and Political Power: Emerging Forms of Radicalism in the West.'' Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press, 1986. (Cited 482 times, according to

:Review, by H Kitschelt - ''

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,'' , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 316 - 317 * Boggs, Carl. ''The Two Revolutions: Antonio Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism''. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984. :Translated into Korean by Mun-gu Kang as 다시그람시에게로 / Tasi Gŭramsi egero * Boggs, Carl, and David Plotke. ''The Politics of Eurocommunism: Eclipse of the Bolshevik Legacy in the West''. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1980.

Journal articles

* Boggs, Carl. "Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers’ control." ''Radical America'' 11.6 (1977): 99-122. (Cited 394 times, according to

) * Boggs C. Social Capital and Political Fantasy: Robert Putnam's" Bowling Alone". ''Theory and Society''. 2001 Apr 1;30(2):281-97. (Cited 171 times, according to Google Scholar.) * 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. (Cited 135 times, according to Google Scholar.) * Boggs C, Pollard T. Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism. ''New Political Science''. 2006 Sep 1;28(3):335-51.(Cited 127 times, according to Google Scholar.) * Boggs C. Revolutionary process, political strategy, and the dilemma of power. ''Theory and Society''. 1977 Sep 1;4(3):359-93. (Cited 85 times, according to Google Scholar.)

References

External links

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