Class, Party, Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader

by Leo Panitch (Editor)

Since beginning publication in1964, The Socialist Register has been one of the most important sources of engaged, critical, and influential theoretical interventions on the socialist left. Released as an annual with a focus on publishing rigorous, sustained pieces that take up particular themes, it has always been committed to developing an independent, nonsectarian relationship with Marxism.

This volume—the Register’s first-ever reader—grapples with the question of whether political organization is a necessary part of the struggle by the working-class to overthrow capitalism. In pieces published over the course of publication’s entire history contributors, from Ralph Miliband to Jean-Paul Satre, examine various aspects of this theme.

Genres: Nonfiction

300 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2018

Reviews

[Yngve Skogstad]

Now, most of the articles I found only moderately interesting and arcanely written, as well as excessively concerned with "just exactly what did Marx and Engels write about such and such topic". However, the fantastic opening article by André Gorz as well as Panitch and Gindin's brilliant and concrete concluding chapter makes it all worth it.