The Socialist Register 1995

Why Not Capitalism?

Edited by Leo Panitch

Contents

Preface

Ralph Miliband, Socialist Intellectual, 1924-1994
by Leo Panitch

A Chronology of the New Left and Its Successors, Or: Who’s Old-Fashioned Now?
by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Saying No to Capitalism at the Millenium
by George Ross

Once More Moving On: Social Movements, Political Representation and the Left
by Hilary Wainwright

Globalizing Capitalism and the Rise of Identity Politics
by Frances Fox Piven

Europe In Search of a Future
by Daniel Singer

The Yeltsin Regime
by K. S. Karol

The State in the Third World
by William Graf

The ‘Underclass’ and the US Welfare State
by Linda Gordon

’Class War Conservatism’: Housing Policy, Homelessness and the ‘Underclass’
by Joan Smith

Capitalist Democracy Revisited
by John Schwartzmantel

Parliamentary Socialism Revisited
by John Saville

Harold Laski’s Socialism
by Ralph Miliband

How it All Began: A Footnote to History
by Marion Kozak

Ralph Miliband, A Select Bibliography in English

About the Author

 Leo Panitch is 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 has been 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 is 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 is currently a supporter of the Socialist Project.