Carl Boggs Explained

Carl Boggs (born July 22, 1937) is a social science and film studies professor at the National University in Los Angeles.^[1]

He received a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. He has also taught at the University of South Carolina and Washington University.^{[2] [3]}

He has written numerous books on subjects including social theory, European and American politics, and military policy. He has contributed to several socialist organizations and journals,^[4] such as Solidarity, the LA Socialist Community School,^[5] and the Free Speech Movement.^[6]

He received a Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award.^{[7] [8]}

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 Google Scholar 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 WorldCat, the book is held in 1208 libraries^[9]
• 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 Google Scholar ^[10])
  • 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 Google Scholar 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

Review, by H Kitschelt - American Political Science Review,, 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 Google Scholar ^[10])
• 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.^[10])
• 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.^[10])
• 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.^[10])
• 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.^[10])

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carl Boggs – New Politics. en-US. 2020-01-25.
2. Web site: Carl Boggs. Guilford Press. en-US. 2020-01-25.
3. Web site: About. Carl Boggs. 2022-02-16.
4. Web site: » Author » Carl Boggs. zcomm.org. 30 November 2019 . 2020-01-25.
5. Socialist Community School Committee list, Fall 1979
6. Web site: An Evening With VC Alum Carl Boggs. Ventura College Foundation. en-US. 2020-01-25.
7. Web site: American Political Science Association > MEMBERSHIP > Organized Sections > Organized Section 27: Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award. www.apsanet.org. 2020-01-25.
8. Web site: Dr. Carl Boggs. National University. en-US. 2020-01-25.
9. Web site: The crimes of empire : rogue superpower and world domination . WorldCat . 28 June 2024.
10. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=Carl+Boggs&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33 Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Oct. 24 2021