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Introduction by Kevin Coogan
“The Root Is Man” Then and Now
THE ROOT IS MAN
The Plan and Purpose of This Essay
PART 1: MARXISM IS OBSOLETE
1. We Need a New Political Vocabulary
2. The World We Live In
The World through Marxist Spectacles
The World as It Is
The Step that Wasn’t There
“Left” and “Right” in Two World Wars
3. The Question of Marxism
The Ambiguity of Marxism
What Marx Wanted
How He Thought It Would Come About
How It Really Is Coming About
The Rock that Turned Out to Be Sand
4. The Mirage of the Proletarian Revolution
Economic: the Unions
Political: the Parties
Our Own Experience in America
5. Bureaucratic Collectivism: The “Third Alternative”
What Is Capitalism?
Commodities Lose Their Mystery
Labor’s Fetters Become Visible
The Nature of the Soviet Union
6. Modern War and the Class Struggle
The Inadequacy of the Marxian View of War
Economic: “More Work, Better Pay”
Political: The Dominance of Foreign Policy
PART 2: TOWARD A NEW RADICALISM
Definitions
7. Scientific Method and Value Judgment
The Limitations of Scientific Method
Is a Scientifically-Grounded Ethics Possible?
On What, Then, CAN We Base Our Values?
What Is NOT Asserted about Science
8. Marxism and Values — Three Texts with Comments
Text I
Text II
Text III
9. The Idea of Progress
Ancestral Voices Prophesying Progress
The Metaphysics of Progress
The Atomic Bomb, or the End in Sight
A Digression on Marx and Homer
10. Wanted: A New Concept of Political Action
11. Five Characteristics of a Radical
1. The Positiveness of Negativism
2. The Realism of Unrealism
3. The Beauties of Moderation
4. Against the Fetishism of the Masses
5. Self-ishness, or The Root Is Man
Appendix
APPENDIX A: ON THE PROLETARIAT AS A REVOLUTIONARY CLASS
APPENDIX B: THE MAIN ENEMY IS IN MOSCOW
APPENDIX C: THE BERLIN CRISIS
APPENDIX D: HISTORICAL NOTE — BURNHAM AND THE CCF
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