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[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

[An excellent classroom resource on the social impact of technology on
society, political economy, social systems and theories of social change.
15 Essays, written between 1995 and 2005, Can be used separately, in groups
or as a whole.]

CyberRadicalism: A New Left for a Global Age

Changemaker Publications, 2005, 313pp. Paper.$20

E-book version also available.

Available at: http://www.lulu.com/changemaker

Davidson is a computer consultant in Chicago, a graduate in philosophy from
Penn State University and taught at the University of Nebraska. In the
1960s, he was a national leader of SDS. Harris is professor of history at
DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago, and a former steelworker and
trade union activist. Both are founders of the Global Studies Association,
North America

Table of Contents:

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Part One:

The Revolution in Production  & the Need for New Theory

Chapter 1: The Promise and Peril of the Third Wave: Socialism and Democracy
for the 21st Century.

Chapter 2: The Cybernetic Revolution and the Crisis of Capitalism.

Chapter 3: CyberRadicalism:  Getting Beyond Scarcity: Strategy and Vision
in the Information Age.

Chapter 4: From Das Capital to DOS Capital: A Look at Recent Theories of
Value.

Chapter 5: There Is An Alternative, Market Socialism with Radical
Democracy: Some Notes On Reading Schweickart's 'After Capitalism.'

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Part Two:

Classes and Class Struggle  In the Era of Globalization

Chapter 6: Globalization and the Technological Transformation of Capitalism.

Chapter 7: Towards A Global Ruling Class?  Globalization and the
Transnational Capitalist Class.

Chapter 8: Information Technology & the Transnational Ruling Class.

Chapter 9: The Military-Industrial Complex in the Conflict for Power.

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Part Three:

Revolutionary Practice in a Non-Revolutionary Period:

The Strategy and Tactics of  'High Road' Structural Reform

Chapter 10: A New Manifesto on the Strategy and Tactics of Radical
Democracy: A Review of Dan Swinney's Building the Bridge to the High Road

Chapter 11: A New Social Contract: The Need for Radical Reforms in the
Fight for Jobs and a Living Wage.

Chapter 12: Terrorism and the Present Danger: A Perspective for the
American Left.

Chapter 13: Moving from Protest to Politics: Dumping Bush's Regime in 2004.

Chapter 14: The Road Ahead After 2004: Building a Broad Nonpartisan
Alliance vs. Bush and the Far Right.

Chapter 15: Globalization, Theocracy and the New Fascism: An Analysis of
the U.S.  Right's Rise to Power & What Can Be Done About It

$20. 313pp, Paperback

www.lulu.com/changemaker


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