Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- Contents -- Part I Utopianism -- 1 Marxism and Socialism in America -- 1.1 Marxist Thought -- 1.2 Debsian Socialism -- 1.3 Adhesion Without Cohesion -- References -- 2 Utopia and Reform -- 2.1 America's Special Destiny -- 2.2 Edward Bellamy, Lincoln Steffens -- Looking Backward, 2000-1887 -- "I Have Seen the Future, and It Works" -- 2.3 Utopianism as a Political Charge -- References -- 3 Socialism and Progressivism -- 3.1 Reform as the "Continuing Frontier" -- 3.2 Progressive Reform and Optimism -- 3.3 Karl Polanyi's Socialism -- References -- Part II Realpolitik -- 4 An Experiment in Municipal Socialism -- 4.1 Mayor Sanders of Burlington -- 4.2 All that Socialist "Pornography" -- 4.3 Foreign Policy as a Local Issue -- References -- 5 Embracing the Democratic Party -- 5.1 From Local to State and National Politics -- 5.2 The Road to the U.S. Senate -- 5.3 Bernie Sanders's Congressional Record -- References -- 6 Bernie Sanders's Liberal Matrix -- 6.1 The Lexicon of New Deal Liberalism -- 6.2 Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson -- Mainstream Class Warfare -- LBJ for Better or for Worse -- 6.3 The Lexicon of the 1960s -- References -- Part III 99 Percent -- 7 Hegemony -- 7.1 Gramscian Hegemony -- 7.2 Americanism -- 7.3 Consent and Consensus -- References -- 8 Hope -- 8.1 A Post-American Promise -- 8.2 The Great Recession -- 8.3 A Dream Deferred -- References -- 9 Occupying Wall Street -- 9.1 |