Table of Contents

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgments

Preface

INTRODUCTION

            Socialism: An Introduction

                        Michael W. Howard

1          Socialist

                        Raymond Williams

            PART I: SOCIALIST CLASSICS

2          Critique of the Gotha Program

                        Karl Marx

3          Capital (excerpts) (The Fetishism of Commodities; The Realm of Freedom)

                        Karl Marx

4          Selections

                        Rosa Luxemburg

                                    i. from Social Reform or Revolution (The Consequences of Social Reformism and General Nature of Reformism; Conquest of Political Power)

                                    ii. from The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions

                                    iii. from Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy

                                    iv. from The Russian Revolution (The Problem of Dictatorship; Democracy and Dictatorship)

            PART II: RETROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENTS

5          Social Democracy and Socialism

                        Adam Przeworski

6          Socialism, Capitalism, and the Soviet Experience

                        Alec Nove

            PART III: MODELS OF SOCIALISM

7          Market Socialism: A Defense

                        David Schweickart (complete text of After Capitalism)

8          Participatory Planning

                        Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (Looking Forward and other texts on participatory economics)

            PART IV: FREEDOM AND EQUALITY

9          Elegant Tombstones: A Note on Friedman’s Freedom

                         C. B. Macpherson

10        Socialism and Equality

                        Steven Lukes

11        Why Black Americans are Not Socialists

                        Manning Marable

12        Why Feminism and Socialism Need Each Other

                        Ann Ferguson

            PART V: DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY

13        In What Sense Must Socialism be Communitarian?

                        David Miller

14        Whose Socialism? Which Democracy?

                        Frank Cunningham

            PART VI:, ART, CULTURE, AND RELIGION

15        Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture

                        Fredric Jameson

16        Heaven on Earth: A Conversation between a Political Radical and a Spiritual Seeker

                        Roger S. Gottlieb

            PART VII: ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY

17        Socialism, Nature, and Ecology

                        James O’Connor

18        Marcuse or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology

                        Andrew Feenberg

            PART VIII: NEW DIRECTIONS

19        The New Agenda

                        André Gorz

Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors