Table of Contents
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface
INTRODUCTION
Socialism: An Introduction
1 Socialist
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
6 Socialism, Capitalism, and the Soviet Experience
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
10 Socialism and Equality
11 Why Black Americans are Not Socialists
12 Why Feminism and Socialism Need Each Other
PART V: DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY
13 In What Sense Must Socialism be Communitarian?
14 Whose Socialism? Which Democracy?
PART VI:, ART, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
15 Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture
16 Heaven on Earth: A Conversation between a Political Radical and a Spiritual Seeker
PART VII: ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
17 Socialism, Nature, and Ecology
18 Marcuse or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology
PART VIII: NEW DIRECTIONS
19 The New Agenda
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors