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NECESSARY AND UNNECESSARY UTOPIAS

Socialist Register 2000

edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

“The Socialist Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1965. The millennium issue Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias powerfully argues the urgency of truly radical politics in the coming decades of humanity's greatest hopes and dangers”
— MIKE DAVIS

This volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER points toward a very different way of thinking about the future. While rejecting schematic blueprints, this volume reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary social imagination aimed at creating saner ways of living and more rational ways of organizing society. Topics covered include work and its structure, democracy and the state, and technology and its social uses. Necessary and Unnecessary Utopiasmakes the case that a socialist vision of the the future remains both possible and necessary.

Contributors & Contents

Preface

Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling
Socialist Imagination Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses Norman Geras

Utopia and its Opposites Terry Eagleton

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

Socialized Markets, Not Market Socialism Diane Elson

The Chimera of the Third Way Alan Zuege

Other Pleasures: The Attractions of Post-Consumerism
Kate Soper

Utopian Families Johanna Brenner

Outbreaks of Democracy Ricardo Blaug

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

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

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

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

Warrior Nightmares: Reactionary Populism
at the Millennium Carl Boggs

The Real Meaning of the War Over Kosovo Peter Gowan

About the Editors
LEO PANITCHis professor of political science at York University in Toronto.

COLIN LEYSwas for many years professor of political science at Queen's University in Canada.

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