Introduction
Part One: The Problem
1. Crazy Patterns
Many Sided Lives
The Ties That Bind 1: Institutions
The Ties That Bind 2: Beliefs
Understanding Requires Multiple Entwined Angles
2. Refining Four Views
Feminism, Anti Racism, & Anarchism
Anti Capitalism
Changing Labels Isn’t Enough
Three Classes and Classlessness
3. Society and History
Society Snapshot
Past History
Highlighting “Co-Reproduction” Among Viewing Angles
Future History
Changing the Future
4. Case Studies
Unemployment
Wages
Welfare
Elections
Law & Order
Pop Culture
Immigration
Affirmative Action
Abortion
Day Care
Gay Marriage
Global Warming
Resource Depletion
Wars
Peaces
Revolutions
The Sixties
5. Participatory Theory
Obscure Theory Obstructs Use
Congenial Theory Facilitates Use
What Is Sectarianism
Mental and Personal Flexibility
Personally Participatory
Collectively Participatory
Organizationally & Institutionally Participatory
Part Two: The Solution
6. Negativity Won’t Pull You Through
Vision Counters Cynicism
Vision Informs Understanding
Vision Guides Practice
Methods for Envisioning
Values for Life
Institutions that Enliven
7. Beyond Socialism Is Parecon
8. Self Management Implies Parpolity
9. Via Feminism to Parkinship
10. Through Nationalism To Parculture
11. Sustainability Plus Yields Participatory Ecology
12. Peace With Justice Is Internationalism
13. Vision Sustains and Informs Participatory Revolution
Part Three: Strategy and Program
14. Strategy Is Central
No Strategy Means No Victory
Inflexible Strategy Means No Victory
Sensible Strategy Permits Victory
Brilliant Strategy Ensures Victory
15. Strategic Issues
Reform Can Be Strategic
Non Reformist Reform Contributes To Victory
The Numbers Game
Meeting Our Own Needs
Power Priorities
The Movement & Government
Building As We Go
Attaining Self Management
No Organization, No Victory
What To Attain
16. Tactics Are Transient
Violence Begets Defeat
Too Much Pacifism?
Consensus Sometimes
Cyber This But Not That
Face To Face This and That
Demonstrations Can Win
Demonstrations Can Lose
Seeds of the Future in the Present
Evaluating Actions
Tactics Are Transient
17. Still More Strategic Issues
Winning Is Not Everything
Audacity Is Essential
We Can Win, Thus We Try
Envisioning Victory Is A Fine Approach
18. What Else Can You Show Me? Program!
Economy
Polity
Kinship
Culture
Ecology
International Relations
19. Roads Ahead
An Electoral Path
An Insurrectionary Path
A Mixed Path
Some Other Path
Organization For All Cases?
Part Four: Conclusions
21. The Logic of Revolution
We Are Minimalist
We Are Maximalist
Minimalist Maximalism
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