Socialist register 1997: ruthless criticism of all that exists/ edited by Leo Panitch.

Includes bibliographical references

Preface -- A World Market of Opportunities? Capitalist Obstacles and Left Economic Policy (Gregory Albo) -- Financial Crises on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century (Elmar Altvater) -- Green Imperialism: Pollution, Penitence, Profits (Larry Pratt & Wendy Montgomery) -- China’s Communist Capitalism: The Real World of Market Socialism (Gerard Greenfield & Apo Leong) -- Taking Stock of a Century of Socialism (George Ross) -- The Marginality of the American Left: The Legacy of the 1960 (Barbara Epstein) -- Clinton’s Liberalism: No Model for the Left (Doug Henwood) -- The Ideology of ‘Family and Community’: New Labor Abandons the Welfare State (Joan Smith) -- The Decline of Spanish Social Democracy 1982-1996 (Vicente Navarro) -- Cardoso’s Political Project in Brazil: The Limits of Social Democracy (Paul Cammack) -- The State as Charade: Political Mobilisation in Today’s India (Ananya Mukherjee-Reed) -- Marxism, Film and Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism (Scott Forsyth) -- Cyborg Fictions: The Cultural Logic of Posthumanism (Scott McCracken) -- Restoring the Real: Rethinking Social Constructivist Theories of Science (Meera Nanda) -- Post Colonial Theory and the ‘Post-’ Condition (Aijaz Ahmed)