2000: Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias
(Leo Panitch & Colin Leys, eds.)

What is Utopia?
An economy that provides everyone's needs?
A society which empowers all people?
A healthy, peaceful and supportive environment?

The contributors to this SOCIALIST REGISTER are not looking for miraculous solutions. What is presented here are their contributions to a movement which believes that better worlds are both necessary and possible.

Contents (available below):

Preface
Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
by Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin

Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
by Norman Geras

Utopia and its Opposites
by Terry Eagleton

On the Necessity of Conceiving the Utopian in a Feminist Fashion
by Frigga Haug

Socialized Markets, not Market Socialism
by Diane Elson

The Chimera of the Third Way
by Alan Zuege

Other Pleasures: The Attractions of Post-consumerism
by Kate Soper

Utopian Families
by Johanna Brenner

Outbreaks of Democracy
by Ricardo Blaug

Real and Virtual Chiapas: Magic Realism and the Left
by Judith Adler Hellman

The Centrality of Agriculture: History, Ecology And Feasible Socialism
by Colin Duncan

Democratise or Perish: The Health Sciences as a Path for Social Change
by Julian Tudor Hart

The Dystopia of our Times: Genetic Technology and Other Afflictions
by Varda Burstyn

Warrior Nightmares: Reactionary Populism at the Millennium
by Carl Boggs

The Real Meaning of the War Over Kosovo
by Peter Gowan