Robert Albritton is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Shannon Bell is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. John R. Bell is Professor in the General Arts and Sciences Program at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. Richard Westra is Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at Pukyong National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea.

• Introduction: towards democracy through socialisms PART I Governance and law 1 Socialism and individual freedom 2 Globalization’s challenge to feminist political economy and the law: a socialist perspective PART II Reembedding 3 Earth democracy 4 The imperative of the social bond: after the triumph of markets 5 Adam Smith’s green vision and the future of global socialism 6 Marx’s anti-authoritarian ecocommunism PART III Pleasure 7 Hedonist revisionism 8 Post-porn\post-anti-porn: queer socialist pornography PART IV Development visions 9 The failure of African socialisms and their future 10 The “impasse” debate and socialist development PART V Political agency 11 Global alternatives and the meta-industrial class, Postscript on the surplus population PART VI Possible worlds 13 Socialism beyond market and productivism 14 From socialists to localists