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It includes licensing and rights notices, bibliographic data such as ISBNs and Library of Congress control number, and production credits. It also outlines the book’s contents, framing a “gonzo Marxist” perspective that revisits the Russian Revolution across a century, comparing socialism against capitalism and exploring counterfactual reflections through an epilogue centered on “the worst possible world.”","First published by Zero Books, 2017  \nZero Books is an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd., Laurel House, Station Approach,  \nAlresford, Hants, SO24 9JH, UK  \noɽ[ce1@jhpbooks.net](ce1@jhpbooks.net)  \n[www.johnhuntpublishing.com](www.johnhuntpublishing.com)  \n[www.zero-books.net](www.zero-books.net)  \nFor distributor details and how to order please visit the ‘Ordering’ section on our website.  \nText copyright: Philip Cunliʃe 2016  \nISBN: 978 1 78535 697 1  \n978 1 78535 698 8 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2017937405  \nAll rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the  \npublishers.  \nThe rights of Philip Cunliʃe as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nDesign: Stuart Davies  \nPrinted and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY, UK  \nWe operate a distinctive and ethical publishing philosophy in all areas of our business, from our global network of authors to production and worldwide distribution.  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgements  \nChapter One: One Hundred Years that Shook the World Chapter Two: Possible Worlds: Socialism or Barbarism Chapter Three: The Best Possible World: Global Socialism  \nChapter Four: Lives in the Best Possible World  \nEpilogue: Reɻections on the Worst Possible World: Our World  \nTo my PO653 students  \nAcknowledgements  \nWhen I started teaching Marxism at the University of Kent in the academic year 2012/13, occasionally my students would ask me,“What kind of a Marxist are you?” This book provides an answer to their question: a gonzo Marxist. They have constantly challenged me to come up with new ways of introducing, justifying and refreshing the concepts, theories and ideas that I have taught them. The book is dedicated to them.  \nThis book was also variously inspired by the work of Slavoj Žižek, Richard Ned Lebow, James Heartɹeld, Richard J. Evans, Ross Wolfe, Loren Goldner, @Damn_Jehu, Peter Frase, Francis Spuʃord, Chris Cutrone, Reid Kane and Ken Macleod. Inspiration also came from browsing the posts of various Internet chat forum participants, especially those of K-Haderach and Cowd. If all these people agreed with everything or even most things in this book, I know I would have done something wrong. Nonetheless, I hope that if any of them come to read this short book, at least they ɹnd it stimulating.  \nI would also like to thank, in no particular order, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, Frances O’Leary, Chris Bickerton, Lee Jones, Peter Ramsay, Suke Wolton, Charles Devellennes and Yana Bezirganova who all read earlier versions of the manuscript in part or in full. They all encouraged my gonzo tendency of one. A special thank you to Alex Gourevitch for his help in putting together the counterfactual narrative on the post-war revolution in the US. Needless to say, any errors of fact, interpretation and judgement are all mine, as unfortunately errors cannot be eliminated, even in the realm of the counter-factual.  \nChapter I  \nOne Hundred Years that Shook the  \nWorld  \nA hundred years since the Russian Revolution that was supposed to have swept capitalism away, global capitalism remains intact and unchallenged. The USSR, that state founded by the Russian Revolution, lies on the ash heap of history. The defeat of the Russian Revolution has put paid to hopes of revolutionary social transformation through the seizure of state power. It has put paid to dreams of a radically better world in which social divisions have been eliminated and all oppression abolished. Its defeat has exposed the futility of humanity seeking to remould society and consciously shape its own destiny.  \nYet bizarrely the epic triumph of capitalism has left us with only a limited appreciation of its many beneɹts and achievements. 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