CONTENTS
Acknowledgments = 13
Preface: "A Fearful Monument" = 15
One: Theory = 25
1. The Left as a Theoretical Problem = 27
The Problem of Definition = 27
Historical Roles = 39
Ally of the Working Class? = 45
2. The New Intellectuals = 49
Marxism and the Intellectuals = 49
"Hail to the New Intellectuals!" = 53
The Historical Consciousness of the Left = 57
3. Strangers in the Land: The Proletariat and Marxism = 62
Farmers and Industrial Workers = 62
The Utopian Tradition = 72
The Marxist Background = 76
Three Leaders in American Socialism = 84
Two: History = 91
4. The Lyrical Left = 93
The Creenwich Village Rebellion = 93
War and the State = 101
The Bolshevik Revolution = 106
The Odyssyes of Reed and Eastman = 113
Feminists and Black Intellectuals = 124
Intermezzo: The Lost Generation = 158
5. The Old Left = 145
The Depression and the Image of the Soviet Union = 146
The Lefts Compared = 154
Sidney Hook and the Americanization of Marxism = 158
The Popular Front = 165
The Spanish Civil War and the Moscow Trials = 175
The Dewey Trotsky Debates: "A Veritable Pharos" its "A Fearful Monument" = 179
The Critique of Marxism: Legacy of the Old Left = 187
A Tenuous Continuity = 201
Marxism, Modernism, McCarthlyism: The New York Intellectuals = 210
6 New Left = 218
From Alienation to Activism = 218
Ideological Origins = 222
The Lefts Compared = 231
The Civil Rights Movement aiid tiie Antiwar flesistanee = 238
The Counterculture = 242
1968: A Year That Shook the World = 248
Factionalism and Suicidal Extremism = 256
Factionalism and Achievements = 265
The "New Conscioisness" and Herbert Marcuse = 268
Three; Anomaly = 277
7. The Academic Left = 279
Post-Vietnam America = 279
The Left Academy = 288
The Feminist Left = 298
8. Poetry of the Past: The Rewriting of American History = 307
The OLd and the New in New Left Historiography = 507
Hegel's "Lordship and Bondage" = 315
The New Labor History = 326
Tocqueville's Shadow = 335
9. Power, Freedom, and the Failure of Theory = 342
Hegemony, Critical Theory, Deconstruction = 342
The World Turned Upside Down, 1981-1990 = 356
From Poststructuralism to Pragmatism = 364
Power and Suspicion: The Enduring Relevance of the Enlightenment = 370
Notes = 385
Index = 421
