Socialist Register 1997: Ruthless Criticism of all that Exists


Leo Panitch ed.


"But if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just a little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."-Marx, 1843

Contents
(Essays available below)

Preface

A World Market of Opportunities? Capitalist Obstacles and Left Economic Policy
by Gregory Albo

Financial Crises on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century
by Elmar Altvater

Green Imperialism: Pollution, Penitence, Profits
by Larry Pratt & Wendy Montgomery

China's Communist Capitalism: The Real World of Market Socialism
by Gerard Greenfield & Apo Leong

Taking Stock of a Century of Socialism
by George Ross

The Marginality of the American Left: The Legacy of the 1960
by Barbara Epstein

Clinton's Liberalism: No Model for the Left
by Doug Henwood

The Ideology of 'Family and Community': New Labor Abandons the Welfare State
by Joan Smith

The Decline of Spanish Social Democracy 1982-1996
by Vicente Navarro

Cardoso's Political Project in Brazil: The Limits of Social Democracy
by Paul Cammack

The State as Charade: Political Mobilisation in Today's India
by Ananya Mukherjee-Reed

Marxism, Film and Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism
by Scott Forsyth

Cyborg Fictions: The Cultural Logic of Posthumanism
by Scott McCracken

Restoring the Real: Rethinking Social Constructivist Theories of Science
by Meera Nanda

Post Colonial Theory and the 'Post-' Condition
by Aijaz Ahmed