Ball buster? : true confessions of a Marxist businessman / Bertell Ollman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2002.Description: 272 pages : black and white photographs ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0887128092
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.43/092/4 B 19
LOC classification:
  • HX 84 .O44 A33 2002
Contents:
Faust: 1. In search of critical games -- 2. Return to the city in McCarthy's hearse: the makings of a Merxist professor -- 3. Class struggle is the name of the game -- 4. From class struggle to class struggle, inc. --
Odysseus: 5. Into the entrails of the toy building, or how does one produce a game? -- 6. Litmus test in Maryland: academic freedom is also class struggle -- 7. Mayday 1978, 4:30 p.m.: "you are invited to a press conference..." -- 8. Rocky grapples with Marxist: the media discover class struggle -- 9. Strike at Brentano's bookstore -- 10. Selling revolution over the counter -- 11. Vox Populi --
Alice: 12. Are the banks ready to finance class struggle -- 13. Putting Marx back into Christmas -- 14. Just another small business about to go broke -- 15. Enter Warner Brothers --
Gregor: 16. The grand tour: selling games or carrying the world? -- 17. The Marxist millionaire -- 18. Class struggle becomes a war game --
Phoenix: 19. From the Russian tea room to the Frankfurt book fair: class struggle lurches forward -- 20. Is it time to bury Karl Marx? -- Hollywood -- Maryland -- Rome --
Appendices: I. Last roundup -- II. Where are they now? -- III. Professor's epilogue: in praise of small business II --
Epilogue 2002: Why "Ballbuster"?.
Summary: "Ball Buster? is the second edition (the original title was Class Struggle is the Name of the Game) of a straight forward 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 states that the role you play in society is decisive in determining what kind of person you are." -- From Amazon.Summary: "Bertell Ollman recounts the challenges of finding American distribution for his revolutionary board game Class Struggle (over 250000 copies sold). His misadventures explode the myth of capitalism, showing the struggles small business owners face. This revised edition updates readers on what has happened in Ollman's life and work since 1983. A delightfully well written book that reveals the darker side of the entrepreneurial reaches for success. " -- From Amazon
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This text includes four pages of plates containing black and white photographs, depicting author Bertell Ollman throughout his professional and personal life.

Faust: 1. In search of critical games -- 2. Return to the city in McCarthy's hearse: the makings of a Merxist professor -- 3. Class struggle is the name of the game -- 4. From class struggle to class struggle, inc. --

Odysseus: 5. Into the entrails of the toy building, or how does one produce a game? -- 6. Litmus test in Maryland: academic freedom is also class struggle -- 7. Mayday 1978, 4:30 p.m.: "you are invited to a press conference..." -- 8. Rocky grapples with Marxist: the media discover class struggle -- 9. Strike at Brentano's bookstore -- 10. Selling revolution over the counter -- 11. Vox Populi --

Alice: 12. Are the banks ready to finance class struggle -- 13. Putting Marx back into Christmas -- 14. Just another small business about to go broke -- 15. Enter Warner Brothers --

Gregor: 16. The grand tour: selling games or carrying the world? -- 17. The Marxist millionaire -- 18. Class struggle becomes a war game --

Phoenix: 19. From the Russian tea room to the Frankfurt book fair: class struggle lurches forward -- 20. Is it time to bury Karl Marx? -- Hollywood -- Maryland -- Rome --

Appendices: I. Last roundup -- II. Where are they now? -- III. Professor's epilogue: in praise of small business II --

Epilogue 2002: Why "Ballbuster"?.

"Ball Buster? is the second edition (the original title was Class Struggle is the Name of the Game) of a straight forward 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 states that the role you play in society is decisive in determining what kind of person you are." -- From Amazon.

"Bertell Ollman recounts the challenges of finding American distribution for his revolutionary board game Class Struggle (over 250000 copies sold). His misadventures explode the myth of capitalism, showing the struggles small business owners face. This revised edition updates readers on what has happened in Ollman's life and work since 1983. A delightfully well written book that reveals the darker side of the entrepreneurial reaches for success. " -- From Amazon

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