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Grace Lee Boggs: activist, writer, speaker involved in every major 20th Century U.S. social movement. Beginning in the 1940’s with work with Marxist C.L.R. James, she came to Detroit in 1953. Working with her husband, James Boggs, African American activist and writer they inspired generations of young people with Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century and co-founded Detroit Summer, a youth program to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. She currently works with Detroit City of Hope, Beloved Communities Initiative and writes a weekly column for the Michigan Citizen. Her autobiography, Living for Change, was published in 1998. Monthly review press recently republished The American Revolution and RETC.
Immanuel Wallerstein: “My intellectual biography is one long quest for an adequate explanation of contemporary reality, so that I and others might act upon it. The quest was both intellectual and political, and I have always felt it could not be one without being at the same time the other—for me or for anyone.” Wallerstein writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: historical development of the modern world-system; contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; structures of knowledge.
