- Introduction
- The International Committee and the World Socialist Web Site
- The International Editorial Board and the perspectives of the ICFI
- Dialectics, pragmatism and the theoretical work of the ICFI
- How the ICFI has fought pragmatism
- What is objectivism?
- The New York City transit strike
- The WSWS and “political exposures”
- The 2004 election
- Marxism and the Enlightenment
- The origins of the campaign for “Utopia”
- Marx, Engels and utopianism
- The idealist method of utopianism
- Socialists and the masses
- Consciousness and socialism
- Brenner on the family and backwardness
- Bernstein, science and utopianism
- Neo-utopianism and the demoralization of the petty-bourgeois left
- What did Daniel Guerin really write?
- Wilhelm Reich’s conception of socialist consciousness
- Eros and Death
- Objective conditions, science and history
This work is contained in the book The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique, by David North. It was published in response to criticisms raised against the ICFI by Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, two former members of the Workers League, the predecessor of the SEP in the United States. It was first published in June, 2006.
In the course of the reply, North addresses the irrationalist assault on the traditions of the Enlightenment, the reactionary character of modern utopianism, and the importance of a historically-directed consciousness in the understanding of objective political reality. North evaluates the work of such neo-utopian theoreticians as Hendrik de Man, Ernst Bloch, Wilhelm Reich, and Herbert Marcuse.