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The Socialist Register 1995

The Socialist Register 1995

Why Not Capitalism?

About the book

The theme of this year’s volume, Why Not Capitalism, is taken from the title Ralph Miliband originally had intended for his last book, reflecting his concern that the centrality of an anti-capitalist politics for the Left, of a political project fundamentally oriented to transcending the capitalist order, not be displaced. ‘Why Not Capitalism’ is intended to signal the importance, today more than ever, that the Left develop its capacities to understand and explain the dynamics, contradictions and depredations of contemporary capitalism in its many manifestations around the globe; while, at the same time, undertaking searching reexaminations of the Left’s own histories and current practices to the end of reawakening socialist commitment, vision and potential. In this way we may yet be able to challenge the appalling capitalist ‘new times’ we live in.

Capitalism & Alternatives

Author

Leo Panitch

Leo Panitch was 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 was 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 was 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 was an ardent supporter of the Socialist Project.

Preface
Ralph Miliband, Socialist Intellectual, 1924-1994 (Leo Panitch)
A Chronology of the New Left and Its Successors, Or: Who’s Old-Fashioned Now? (Ellen Meiksins Wood)
Saying No to Capitalism at the Millenium (George Ross)
Once More Moving On: Social Movements, Political Representation and the Left (Hilary Wainwright)
Globalizing Capitalism and the Rise of Identity Politics (Frances Fox Piven)
Europe In Search of a Future (Daniel Singer)
The Yeltsin Regime (K. S. Karol)
The State in the Third World (William Graf)
The ‘Underclass’ and the US Welfare State (Linda Gordon)
‘Class War Conservatism’: Housing Policy, Homelessness and the ‘Underclass’ (Joan Smith)
Capitalist Democracy Revisited (John Schwartzmantel)
Parliamentary Socialism Revisited (John Saville)
Harold Laski’s Socialism (Ralph Miliband)
How it All Began: A Footnote to History (Marion Kozak)
Ralph Miliband, A Select Bibliography in English