This book begins with a brief section from Trotsky and Che Guevara, and Vivian Gornick's work on American Communism, and with overviews of questions of spirituality in pre- and early Soviet Russian thought and in Western Marxism.

Introduction Classic Visions Socialism and the Human Future by Leon Trotsky, USSR The New Socialist Man: The Dialectic of the Individual and the Collective by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Cuba Voices of American Communists by Vivian Gornick, USA Background and Overview Marxism and Spirituality: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Russia by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, USA The Dream and the Reality: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Marxism by Costanzo Preve, Italy Contemporary Marxist Views The Spiritual in Marxism by Herbert Aptheker, USA Spirituality in Marxism: A Communist View by Nancy Bancroft, USA Why I Am Still a Marxist: The Question of Ontology by Zbynek Fiser (Egon Bondy), The Czech Republic On the Spirit and Spirituality: An Essay in Categorical Analysis by M. S. Kagan, Russia Marxism, Transcendence, and Spirituality by Boris Majer, Slovenia Spiritual Impoverishment, Ecological Crisis, and Ecological Communism by Thomas Mongar, USA Portrait of a Marxist as a Young Nun by Helena Sheehan, Ireland Dialogues; Marxism and Christianity: East European Experience by Milan Machovec and Milan Opocensky, both of the Czech Republic Marxism and Christianity: Latin American Experience by José Miguez-Bonino, Argentina Marxism, Buddhism, and the Question of Human Suffering by Christopher Titmuss, England References Index