Table of Contents
I. Against the Stream: Perspectives on the Revolutionary Project in Non-Revolutionary Times
- The End of 20th Century Socialism? Or the Beginning of a New Socialism? (Alan Sears)
- The Young and the Leftless: An Open Letter on Organization (Kim Deihl, Michelle Foy, Bryan Proffitt, Claire Tran)
- Building Toward the Next New Left (David McNally)
II. Fundamentals of Revolutionary Politics
- Identity Politics and Class Struggle (Robin D.G. Kelley)
- Feminism of the Anti-Capitalist Left (Lydia Cirillo)
- Race, the National Question, Empire and Socialist Strategy in the USA (Bill Fletcher, Jr.)
- Elements of Revolutionary Strategy (François Sabado)
III. Anti-Capitalist Protest Tactics and Movement-Building Strategies
- The United Front Tactic (Paul LeBlanc)
IV. Revolutionary Organization: Some Models
- Ideas for the Struggle: On Revolutionary Organization (Marta Harnecker)
- Revolutionary Organization (Michael Albert)
- The Leninist Theory of Organization (Ernest Mandel)
- Toward a New Beginning – On Another Road: The Alternative to the Micro-Sect (Hal Draper)
V. Revolutionary Publishing and Pedagogy
- Newspapers and the Workers (Antonio Gramsci)
- Agitation and Propagation (Duncan Hallas)
VI. “After the Revolution”: On Post-Capitalist Alternatives
- Socialism as it was Always Meant to Be (Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert)
- Participatory Planning Through Negotiated Coordination (Pat Devine)
- Overcoming Blind Spots in Left Vision: Participatory Planning (Robin Hahnel)
VII. History of Revolutionary Politics
- Socialism From Below (David McNally)
- The Two Souls of Socialism (Hal Draper, 1966)
VIII. Classics of the Revolutionary Tradition
- Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848)
- The Civil War in France (Karl Marx, 1871)
- The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State (Mikhail Bakunin, 1871)
- Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels, 1880)
- Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (Pyotr Kropotkin, 1898)
- War and Revolution (Karl Kautsky, 1912)
- Ten Days that Shook the World (John Reed, 1919)
- What Does the Spartacus League Want? (Rosa Luxemburg, December 1918)
- Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (Rosa Luxemburg, 1904)
- The State and Revolution (V.I. Lenin, 1917)
- Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (V.I. Lenin, 1920)
- The Lessons of October (Leon Trotsky, 1924)
- The Transitional Program (Leon Trotsky, 1938)
- Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution (Leon Trotsky, 1939)
- Message to the Tricontinental (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, 1967)
IX. Suggestions for Further Online Reading
- The Rank and File Strategy: Building a Socialist Movement in the US [pdf] (Kim Moody, 2000)
- Which Way is Left? Theory, Politics, Organization, and 21st Century Socialism [pdf] (FRSO, freedomroad.org, 2007)
- Regroupment and Refoundation of a U.S. Left [pdf] (Solidarity, USA, 2008)
- Social Anarchism and Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm (Murray Bookchin)