Michael Löwy was born in Brazil, has lived in Paris since 1969, and is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (French section of the Fourth International). His books and articles, including the Theory of Revolution in Young Marx and Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer have been translated into thirty languages. He is emeritus research director of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris.

Preface to the English Version
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Foreword

I. Points of Solidarity
The First International and the Paris Commune (1871)
May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs (1886)
Revolutionary Trade Unionism and the Charter of Amiens (1906)
The Spanish Revolution (1936–1937)
May 68
From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
Portraits
Louise Michel
Pierre Monatte
Rosa Luxemburg
Emma Goldman
Buenaventura Durruti
Benjamin Péret
Subcomandante Marcos

II. Points of Conflict
The Russian Revolution (1917–1920)
October 1917
The Split between Red and Black
Party and Soviets
Revisiting the Kronstadt Tragedy
The Two Versions of the Conflict
A Sissenting View: Victor Serge
An Error and a Wrong
Makhno: Red and Black in Ukraine (1918–1921)

III. A Few Libertarian Marxist Thinkers
Walter Benjamin
André Breton
Daniel Guérin

IV. Policy Issues
Individual and Collective
Making Revolution without Taking Power?
Autonomy and Federalism
Democratic Economic Planning and Self-management
Direct and Representative Democracy
Union and Party
Ecosocialism and Anarchist Ecology

Conclusion
Toward a Libertarian Marxism