Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS 1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited 2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View 3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview PART II: REEL HISTORY: COMMENT ON THE CINEMATIC 4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness 5. The Hands that Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York 6. Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez PART III: HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT 7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism 8.

Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement 9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism PART IV: APPRECIATIONS 10. Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth 11. Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted 12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890-1974 13. Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness' References Index.