Preface to the English Version
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Foreword
I. Points of Solidarity
    The First International and the Paris Commune (1871)
    May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs (1886)
    Revolutionary Trade Unionism and the Charter of Amiens (1906)
    The Spanish Revolution (1936–1937)
    May 68
    From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
    Portraits
    Louise Michel
    Pierre Monatte
    Rosa Luxemburg
    Emma Goldman
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Benjamin Péret
    Subcomandante Marcos
II. Points of Conflict
    The Russian Revolution (1917–1920)
October 1917
The Split between Red and Black
    Party and Soviets
    Revisiting the Kronstadt Tragedy
The Two Versions of the Conflict
A Sissenting View: Victor Serge
An Error and a Wrong
Makhno: Red and Black in Ukraine (1918–1921)
III. A Few Libertarian Marxist Thinkers
    Walter Benjamin
    André Breton
    Daniel Guérin
IV. Policy Issues
Individual and Collective
Making Revolution without Taking Power?
Autonomy and Federalism
Democratic Economic Planning and Self-management
Direct and Representative Democracy
Union and Party
Ecosocialism and Anarchist Ecology
Conclusion
Toward a Libertarian Marxism

"A sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and unbreakable alliances, Revolutionary Affinities takes readers from the Paris Commune to the Occupy movement, and through the heart of bloody fratricidal struggles to paint a vivid picture of the greatest anarchist and Marxist figures who dared to join forces, from Louise Michel to Subcomandante Marcos, from Emma Goldman to Walter Benjamin. With the urgent need for a unified front against the far right, there has never been a better time for this inspiring story.0Authors Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lèowy, two of the foremost voices in the French anti-authoritarian radical left, explore the promises?and challenges?of developing a fully sustainable, libertarian Marxist society by examining questions of political organization, economic policy, radical ecology, and more. Strikingly accessible, brilliantly illuminating, Besancenot and Lèowy have given readers more than a history book, they've created a road map for the future."--Provided by publisher.

Michael Löwy was born in Brazil, has lived in Paris since 1969, and is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (French section of the Fourth International). His books and articles, including the Theory of Revolution in Young Marx and Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer have been translated into thirty languages. He is emeritus research director of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris.