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With rising income inequality featured in the Presidential campaign of self-describedsocialist Bernie Sanders, a new generation of activists is exploring socialist ideas in aserious way. Democratic Socialists of America currently has 40,000 members and ispart of the ongoing debate about whether socialism can be won through the ballotbox or if it must be built from the struggle of ordinary people in the streets andworkplace. In exploring the question: 'What do we mean by socialism?,' Hal Draper arguesgenuine liberation can be won only through self-emancipation.  As a new generation discovers socialism, this important text by American Marxist HalDraper makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from the self-activity ofworkers. Draper outlines the important distinction in the socialist movement between thosewho looked for freedom to be handed down from above and those who saw therevolutionary struggle as being led by ordinary people from below for their ownliberation.

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""Hal Draper may never have had ';professor' before his name but he was the greatest Marx scholar of modern times."" —Mike Davis

Hal Draper may never had `professor' before his name but he was the greatest Marx scholar of modern times. -Mike Davis

Hal Draper may never had 'professor' before his name but he was the greatest Marx scholar of modern times. --Mike Davis

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The late Hal Draper is the author of the five-volume study of Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution (Monthly Review Press) as well as War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism (Humanities Press) and Berkeley: The New Student Revolt (Grove Press.) He was also a prominent socialist journalist and editor of the journal Labor Action from 1948-1958.

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