| Ballbuster?: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman Contributor(s): Ollman, Bertell (Author) |
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ISBN: 1887128921 ISBN-13: 9781887128926 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 Annotation: In "BallBuster? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman, Bertell Ollman recounts the challenges of finding American distribution for his revolutionary board game, Class Struggle (more than 250,000 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. Ollman finds himself questioning his role as a Marxist professor in a capitalist society. He ponders whether he is winning or losing, and if he will make it out of the jungle of capitalist business with his socialist principles still intact. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" (0.93 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |