Carl Boggs

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.

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, such as Solidarity (United States), the LA Socialist Community School, and the Free Speech Movement.

He received a Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award.

Books

• Boggs, Carl. Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity. 'New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-000-46147-3
• Boggs, Carl. Impasse Of European Communism. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-30846-9
  • Review by Richard J. Willey American Political Science Review , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 769 - 770 doi:10.2307/1957297
• Boggs, Carl. Fascism Old and New American Politics at the Crossroads. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018. ISBN 978-1-351-04970-2
• Boggs, Carl. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture. Routledge , 2017. ISBN 978-1-315-08627-9 (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. ISBN 978-1-138-20435-5
• Boggs, Carl. Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy. 2016. ISBN 978-1-61205-871-9
• Boggs, Carl. Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power. Routledge 2016. ISBN 978-1-136-16436-1
• Boggs, Carl. Ecology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.ISBN 978-1-137-28226-2
• Boggs, Carl. Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 978-0-230-11574-3
• Boggs, Carl. The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination. London: Pluto, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7453-2946-8 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1208 libraries
• 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 ISBN 978-0-85345-015-3
• Boggs, Carl. Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7425-2772-0
• Boggs, Carl, and Thomas Pollard. A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7425-3289-2
• Boggs, Carl. The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere. New York: Guilford Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-57230-504-5 (Cited 536 times, according to Google Scholar )
  • Review, Tim Duvall (2001) Democracy & Nature, 7:1, 205-208, doi:10.1080/10855660020028836
• Boggs, Carl. The Socialist Tradition : from Crisis to Decline. New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 978-0-415-90669-2
• Boggs, Carl. Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.ISBN 978-0-7914-1544-3 (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 ISBN 978-7-214-03093-1

• Boggs, Carl. Social Movements and Political Power: Emerging Forms of Radicalism in the West. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87722-447-1 (Cited 482 times, according to Google Scholar

Review, by H Kitschelt - American Political Science Review, , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 316 - 317 doi:10.2307/1956492

• Boggs, Carl. The Two Revolutions: Antonio Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984.ISBN 978-0-89608-225-0

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. ISBN 978-0-919618-32-9

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 )
• 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.)
• 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.)
• 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.)
• 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.)