Ball Buster: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Ball Buster: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman
By (Author) Bertell Ollman
Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press
14th January 2003
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Autobiography: business and industry
Hospitality and service industries
Economic systems and structures
338.761793092
Physical Properties
Paperback
292
Width 1mm, Height 1mm
419g
Description
The memoir of an influential Marxist scholar, professor and game inventor turned business man, BALL BUSTER is a business adventure story, with enough ups, downs, victories, defeats and suspense to fill a Hitchcock film. It is also an extremely humorous autobiography, full of irony and satire, and sprinkled with scholarly insights, a critical view of business as seen from the inside, and a case study of the Marxist theory of embodiment, which holds that the role you play in society is decisive in determining what kind of person you are.
Reviews
"A delightfully well-written book that reveals the darker side of the entrepreneurial reaches for success." - New York Daily News
Author Bio
Bertell Ollman is author and editor of many books on socialism, including the acclaimed Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists; How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World; Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society; and numerous others.
