Preface / Leo Panitch, Greg Albo -- The distinctive heritage of 1917: resuscitating revolution's longue durée / Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster -- Class, party and the challenge of state transformation / Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin -- The actuality of revolution / Jodi Dean -- Radicalizing the party-movement relationship: from Ralph Miliband to Jeremy Corbyn and beyond / Hilary Wainwright -- The heritage of Eurocommunism in the contemporary radical left / Fabien Escalona -- Revolution in a warming world: lessons from the Russian to the Syrian revolutions / Andreas Malm -- Beyond eco=catastrophism: the conditions for solar communism / David Schwartzman -- South Africa's next revolt: eco-socialist opportunities / Patrick Bond -- Turning the tide: revolutionary potential and the limits of Bolivia's "process of change" / Robert Cavooris -- Something left in Latin America: Venezuela and the struggle for twenty-first century socialism / Steve Striffler -- In search of the "modern prince:" the new Québec rebellion / Pierre Beaudet -- Marx and Engels on the revolutionary party / August H. Nimtz -- 1917 and the "workers' state:" looking back / A.W. Zurbrugg -- The "people's war" and the legacy of the Chinese revolution / Wang Hui -- Revolution as "national liberation?" The origins of neoliberal antiracism / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- Picturing the whole: form, reform, revolution / Walter Benn Michaels -- Addressing the impossible / Slavoj Žižek -- On revolutionary optimism of the intellect / Leo Panitch.

One hundred years ago, "October 1917" galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacyand transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as impossible as revolution, leaving the left to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises, as well as the conceptual tension between revolution and reform. Populated by an array of passionate thinkers and thoughtful activists, Rethinking Revolution reappraises the historical effects of the Russian revolutionpositive and negativeon political, intellectual, and cultural life, and looks at consequent revolutions after 1917. Change needs to be understood in relation to the distinct trajectories of radical politics in different regions. But the main purpose of this Socialist Register editionone century after "Red October"is to look forward, to what might happen next.