Rebuilding the Left

* Introduction * Part I: The Left and the New World ** 1. Profound Changes in the World ** 2. Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind ** 3. Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social Bloc * Part II: The Crises of 'Party' and Why we Need a New Left Political Culture ** 4. Crisis of Theory ** 5. Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility ** 6. The Organic Crisis ** 7. The Theory Underlying this Concept of Party ** 8. Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible ** 9. Why we Need a Political Organization * Part III: The New Political Instrument ** 10. The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument ** 11. A New Paradigm for Internal Organization * Part IV: From Reforms to Revolution: The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process ** 12. Local Governments: Signposts to an Alternative Path ** 13. The Left and Reform ** 14. The Bolivarian Revolution - Is It a Revolution? * Notes * Index