Acknowledgements 9
1.Ideals and Ideologies 11
2.A Celebration of Marx 32
3.The Classic Thinkers 42
4.Inventory of Ideas 81
5.Rules for Critics 95
6.Critical Observations 104
7.Roads to Socialism 130
8.The Social Democrats 156
9.The Bolshevik Pivot 199
10.The Stalinist Consolidation 282
11.Critics of Stalinism 297
12.Soviet Marxism and the New Revisionists 352
13.Marxism Outside the Bloc 401
14.New Beginnings? 450
Index 457