{"product_id":"9781781688182","title":"An Impatient Life : A Memoir by Daniel Bensaid","description":"A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in  study and discussion, Daniel Bensa?d was a man deeply entrenched in both  the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red  neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to  be France's leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk  shows and in the press. A lyrical essayist and powerful public speaker,  at his best expounding large ideas to crowds of students and workers, he  was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and thrived at the heart  of a resurgent far left in the 1960s, which nurtured many of the leading  figures of today's French establishment.   The path from the  joyous explosion of May 1968, through the painful experience of defeat  in Latin America and the world-shaking collapse of the USSR, to the  neoliberal world of today, dominated as it is by global finance, is  narrated in An Impatient Life with Bensa?d's characteristic  elegance of phrase and clarity of vision. His memoir relates a life of  ideological and practical struggle, a never-resting endeavour to  comprehend the workings of capitalism in the pursuit of revolution.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304041820533,"sku":"9781781688182","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781688182.jpg?v=1762795400","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781781688182","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}