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Book SynopsisSince beginning publication in 1964, The Socialist Register has been one of the most important sources of engaged, critical, and influential theoretical interventions on the socialist left. Released as an annual with a focus on publishing rigorous, sustained pieces that take up particular themes, it has always been committed to developing an independent, nonsectarian relationship with Marxism. This volume - the Register's first-ever reader - grapples with the question of whether political organisation is a necessary part of the struggle by the working-class to overthrow capitalism. In pieces published over the course of publication's entire history contributors, from Ralph Miliband to Jean-Paul Sartre, examine various aspects of this theme.
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Table of ContentsClass, Party, Revolution: An Introduction
Reform and Revolution by André Gorz
The May Events and Revolution in the West by Lucio Magri
Marx and Engels and the Concept of the Party by Monty Johnstone
The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels by Hal Draper
Lenin’s The State and Revolution by Ralph Miliband
Some Problems Concerning Revolutionary
Consciousness by Harold Wolpe
Theory and Practice in Gramsci’s Marxism by John Merrington
Gramsci and Lenin 1917–1922 by Alastair Davidson
Class and Party by Rossana Rossanda
Masses, Spontaneity, Party by Jean-Paul Sartre
Marx and Engels on the Revolutionary Party by August H. Nimtz
Class, Party, and the Challenge of State Transformation by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
