Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories

Series Foreword
	The Marx Revival
	Types of Publications
		Studies on Marx and Engels
		Critical Studies on Marxisms
		Reception Studies and Marxist National Traditions
	Titles Published
	Titles Forthcoming
Preface
Acknowledgments
Praise for Socialist Practice
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Present Moment and the New Discourse About Socialism
	The Perspective of This Book
Part I: Issues in Applied Marxist Theory
	Chapter 2: Marx After a Century of “Real Socialism”
		The Relevance of Marxism Today
		The Historical Experience of Socialist Revolutions
		Gravediggers of Capitalism?
		Toward Ecological Class Consciousness
		The Challenge to the US Left
		Toward an Ecological Socialist Society
	Chapter 3: The End of First-Epoch Socialism and the Problem of Transition
		Victory in Defeat?
		Dialectics of Transition
		The Part and the Whole
		Are We Closer to Socialism or Further Away from It?
		The Continuing Relevance of Marxism
		Toward a Global Transition
	Chapter 4: Marxism and the Struggle for Social Justice
		Marxism and the US Left
			Reports of Death Are Exaggerated
			Still, All Is Not Well
			Where the Treatment Needs to Begin
			Class and Other Oppressions
			The Search for a Cure
		The Dialectic of Identity Politics and Class Struggle
	Chapter 5: The Dialectic of Humanity and Nature
		Species Questions and Class Questions
		1. Overcoming Estrangement
		2. Exploitation of Man and of Nature
		3. Domination, Commodification, and Ecological Breakdown
		4. The Existential Dimension of Capitalist Crisis
	Chapter 6: On “Market Socialism” and the Soviet Experience
		The Market Socialism Debate
		The Soviet Experience
Part II: Social Movements and Political Leadership
	Chapter 7: Workers’ Control and Revolution: History and Theory
		Proletariat and Dictatorship in Revolutionary Russia
		The Politics of Revolutionary Workers’ Control: Three Cases
			Italy, 1920
			Spain, 1936–39
			Chile, 1970–73
		Lessons of Pre-1989 Experience
		Toward a New Synthesis
	Chapter 8: The Politics of “Lesser Evil”: Historical Reflections
		The Electoral Strategies of Marx and Engels
		Lenin on Participation in Bourgeois Politics
		Promise and Pitfalls of Compromise
		Systemic Lesser-Evilism
		Lesser Evil or Greater Good?
		The Current Moment
	Chapter 9: The US Left of the 1960s and Its Legacy
		Historical Grounding of the ’60s Left
			1. Global Setting
			2. Impact of the Red Scare
			3. Mass Constituencies
			4. Imperial Over-Extension and State Violence
		Achievements and Long-Range Impact of the\'60s Left
		When Will the Left Recover the Prominence It Attained in 1968?
			1. Capitalism’s Global Strength
			2. Legitimacy of Dominant Political Forces
			3. Changing Constituencies
			4. Social Movements and Grassroots Organizations
			5. The Impact of Left Political Organizations
	Chapter 10: From Black Liberation to Mass Incarceration: A Documentary Journey
		The Black Panther Party Revisited
		The Carceral State and Surplus Punishment
	Chapter 11: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America: The Filmed Experience
		The Principal Enemy
		Che: Part I and Part II
		The Battle of Chile
	Chapter 12: Song and Vision in the US Labor Movement
		Genesis of Labor Song
		Labor Song in the United States
		Evolution of Songs of Protest Since the 1960s
		Labor Music Today
	Chapter 13: Conclusion
		End Times?
		Scope for Possible Action
Index