Political Science Communism & Socialism
Class, Party, Revolution
A Socialist Register Reader
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2018
- Category
- Communism & Socialism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781608469192
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $36.95
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Description
Since beginning publication in1964, 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 organization 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 Satre, examine various aspects of this theme.
Includes:
Class, 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
About the authors
Leo Panitch is a Distinguished Research Professor, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register. He received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba in 1967 and a M.Sc.(Hons.) and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1968 and 1974, respectively. He was a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at Carleton University between 1972 and 1984. He has been a Professor of Political Science at York University since 1984. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at York from 1988-1994. He was the General Co-editor of State and Economic Life series, U. of T. Press, from 1979 to 1995 and is the Co-founder and a Board Member of Studies in Political Economy. He is also the author of numerous articles and books dealing with political science including The End of Parliamentary Socialism (1997). He was a member of the Movement for an Independent and Socialist Canada, 1973-1975, the Ottawa Committee for Labour Action, 1975-1984, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Committee of Socialist Studies, the Marxist Institute and the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently a supporter of the Socialist Project.
Greg Albo is associate professor of political economy in the Department of Political Science at York University and co-editor of the Socialist Register.
Editorial Reviews
“The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964”
—Mike Davis
“Compulsory reading for people who refuse to be resigned to the idea that there can be no alternative to our unacceptable society”
—Daniel Singer
“Socialism has always been about democracy, human rights and internationalism…that faith is what has characterized the work of the Socialist Register”
—Tony Benn
“I know the Register very well and have found it extremely stimulating, often invaluable.”
—Noam Chomsky
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