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Ideas for Action | Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Thinking About Liberation
What is human nature? • Liberation • Freedom to and freedom from • Power, ideology, and interests • Knowing ourselves • Progress, pessimism, and utopia • Oppression • Multisystems theory
2 Capitalism, Freedom, and the Good Life
Early ideas about capitalism and freedom • The origins of capitalism • Capitalism and government • Capitalist economy/capitalist society • Freedom for the market • Capitalism and freedom
3 Capitalism and Class
What does class mean? • Class struggle • Lack of class mobility •The owning class • Class and race formations of US capitalism • White racial unity and the lack of class consciousness • Gender and class • Trade unions • Class consciousness
4 Transnational Capital and Anti-Capitalism
Transnational organizations • Capitalism and progress • Development • Colonialism and neo-colonialism • Militarism • Communism and anti-communism • Cuba • Alternative economic strategies • Neo-liberalism and TINA • Fighting capitalism • Revolution, reform, and transformation
5 Theorizing and Fighting Racism
The idea of race • Racial formation in the United States • The colors of white • Institutionalized racism • Psychology of racism • Forms of racist consciousness • The changing racial formation • Challenging racism • Agents of social transformation • Assimilation versus social transformation • Nationalism and multisystems approaches • Civil rights
6 Theorizing and Fighting Gender-Based Oppressions
Nature and nurture, sex and gender • Gender formation in the United States • Feminist theory • Liberal feminism • Radical feminism • Socialist feminism • Children's rights • Multisystems feminism • Engendering sexuality • Approaches to organizing
7 People, Nature, and Other Animals
Liberal environmentalism • Deep ecology • Ecofeminism • Animal rights • Red-greens • Environmental justice • Population versus consumption • Sustainability • Lifestyle changes • Lobbying, lawsuits, and direct action
8 Whose Side is the Government On?
Anarchism • Functionalist Marxist theories of the state • Other Marxist theories of the state • The contemporary US state • The end of the accord • Making demands on the state • Shifting targets, shifting alliances
9 Nations, Bureaucracies, Organization, and Utopia
Nationalism • Radical nationalism, colonialism, and anti-colonialism • Gender and nationalism • Imagined communities • The state in utopian society • Foucault's theory of power • Bureaucracy • Democracy • Structure and organization • The state in utopian society
10 What Do We Want and Why Do We Want It? Media and Democratic Culture
Propaganda • Cultural studies in the United States • Gramsci on culture • Stuart Hall and the postmodernists • Cultural politics
11 Where Are We Going and How Do We Get There?
The old left Vanguardism • Prefigurative politics • The revolutionary subject • Identity politics • Civil rights and disability • Empowerment • Violence • Disruption and protest • Education in movements for social change • Micro-politics • Organizational structure • Coalition politics
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