Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Part I: Utopianism
1. Marxism and socialism in America1.1 Marxist thought1.2 Debsian socialism1.3 Adhesion withour cohesion
2. Utopida and reform2.1 America's special destiny2.2 Edwars Bellamy, Lincoln Steffens2.3 Utopianism as a political charge
3. Socialism and progressivism3.1 Reform as the "continuing frontier"3.2 Progressive reform and optimism3.3 Karl Polanyi's socialism
Part II: Realpolitik
4. An experiment in municipal socialism4.1 Mayor Sanders of Burlington4.2 All that socialist "pornography"4.3 Foreign policy as a local issue
5. Embracing the Democratic Party5.1 From local to state and national politicsl5.2 The road to the U.S. Senate5.3 Bernie Sanders's congressional record
6. Bernie Sanders's liberal matrix6.1 The lexicon of the New Deal6.2 Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson6.3 The lexicon of the 1960s
Part III: 99 percent
7. Hegemony7.1 Gramscian hegemony7.2 Americanism7.3 Consent and consensus
8. Hope8.1 A post-American promise8.2 The Great Recession8.3 A dream deferred
9. Occupying Wall Street9.1 A bipolar political spectrum9.2 Content and form9.3 Neoanarchism
Part IV: Democratic socialism as reparative justice
10. Enduring injustice10.1 Historicism and collective memory10.2 A failure of liberalism10.3 Restoring an egalitarian liberal order
11. State and corporate responsibility11.1 Enduring responsibility11.2 Liberalism and responsibility11.3 The age of corporate apologies
12. Democratic socialism and the mainstream12.1 Democratic socialism12.2 Democratic socialism and the Democrats12.3 Redistributive justice