Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and

Edward J . McCaughan is assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Preface: Loss, Renewal, and Frida's Blue House, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Global Change, Paradigm Crisis, and the Renovation of Left Discourse, The Backdrop: From the Revolutionary 1960s to the Neoliberal1980s-What's Left?, Democracy I: The Persistence of Socialist and Liberal Orthodoxies, Democracy II: Renovative Perspectives on Democracy, Socialism I: State vs. Market, Socialism II: Renovative Perspectives on Economic Alternatives, National Sovereignty I: The Nation-State in the Post-Cold War, Globalized World-System, National Sovereignty II: Toward a Relative Autonomy of the Nation-State, Conclusions: Past Imperfect, Present Tense, Future Conditional, About the Book and Author, Index