{"product_id":"here-be-monsters-isbn-9781914420467","title":"Here Be Monsters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA clear and engaging history of how left radicalism went wrong and how it can become what it must be again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere Be Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to a left that has forgotten its history, its potential, and its power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGramsci spoke of a time of monsters or morbid symptoms. In the ancient world, monsters were not enemies, but rather divine warnings, symptoms of a world out of balance. \u003ci\u003eHere Be Monsters \u003c\/i\u003emeets these monsters and listens to what they have to tell us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving personal stories with engaging histories of political thought and the meanings of monsters, Rhyd Wildermuth reveals the roots of current identity conflicts and political contradictions in feminism, anti-racist theory, Marxism, Frankfurt School theorists, and the many other leftist attempts to put the world back into balance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe left has always been the province of dreamers and visionaries, or as Ursula K. Le Guin named them, “realists of a larger reality.” \u003ci\u003eHere Be Monsters \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent and deeply engaging narrative to help us remember that reality once more.“Rhyd writes about some of the toughest, most contentious issues of our society — and he does so with empathy and wisdom. A great, highly informative book.” - \u003cb\u003eYasha Levine, author of \u003ci\u003eSurveillance Valley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A call to a politics that is grounded in friendship, surely the starting point for building a common life in the troubled times around and ahead of us.” - \u003cb\u003eDougald Hine, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics \u0026amp; All the Other Emergencies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Rhyd writes about some of the toughest, most contentious issues of our society — and he does so with empathy and wisdom. A great, highly informative book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYasha Levine, author of \u003ci\u003eSurveillance Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A call to a politics that is grounded in friendship, surely the starting point for building a common life in the troubled times around and ahead of us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDougald Hine, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics \u0026amp; All the Other Emergencies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhyd Wildermuth\u003c\/b\u003e is a druid, theorist, publisher, former union organizer and street activist, and the author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWitches in a Crumbling Empire\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Appalachia and forged on the streets of Seattle, he now lives in the Ardennes and writes the popular Substack, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Forests of Arduinna\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301325721829,"sku":"NP9781914420467","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781914420467.jpg?v=1767728960","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/here-be-monsters-isbn-9781914420467","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}