Abstract
Some will recognize in my title the focus of the closing plenary session of the International Conference on the Future of Socialism, held in New York last October under the sponsorship of Monthly Review and the New York Marxist School. Seven hundred participants and thirty-eight panelists from twenty countries gathered for forty-eight hours, to adjourn from that last session sobered but undismayed. There was general agreement that Marxist analysis—uncompromisingly critical in the sense that it fears neither its own conclusions nor conflict with whatever powers there be—best enables us to understand the world in order to change it. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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