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Book SynopsisWhat is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century? One hundred years ago 'October 1917' was a unique event inspiring socialists and oppressed peoples and became an inevitable point of reference for 20th century politics. Today the left needs both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it, through a critical reappraisal
Table of ContentsGreg Albo: New socialist strategies - or detours? Jodi Dean: Are the multitudes communing? Revolutionary agency and political forms today; Adolph Reed: Are racial minorities revolutionary agents?; Zillah Eisenstein: Revolutionary feminisms today; Nina Power: Accelerated technology, decelerated revolution; David Schwartzman: Beyond global warming: Is solar communism possible?; Andrea Malm: Revolution and counter-revolution in an era of climate change; Patrick Bond: Ecosocialist strategy for a new workers' party in South Africa; Fabien Escolona: Eurocommunism and today's new parties of the radical left; Michalis Spourdalakis: Assessing Syriza in power; Robert Cavooris: Interrogating 21st century revolution in Latin America: the Bolivian case; Steve Striffler: The revolution disarmed? Cuba and Venezuela; August Nimtz: Marx and Engels on revolutionary power: An updated distillation; Anthony Zurbrugg: Leninism's fault lines: Looking back to 1917; Wang Hui: China's revolutionary legacy; Frigga Haug: The Marxist-feminist meaning of revolution; Costas Eleftheriou: The revolutionary party as an 'essentially contested concept' in social theory; Richard Fidler: Dual power yesterday and today; Pierre Beaudet: Rethinking revolution, Rethinking democracy; Bryan Palmer & Joan Sangster: The distinctive heritage of 1917: A critical appraisal; Walter Ben Michaels: Art and revolution today; Slavo Zizek: Addressing the impossible: More alienation, please! Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin: The meaning of revolution in the 21st century.
