BERTELL OLLMAN is a Professor of Politics at New York University, USA, and author of Dance of the Dialectics: Steps in Marx's Method, Dialectical Investigations, Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, among other works. In 2002 Professor Ollman won the first Charles A. McCoy Distinguished Career Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. TONY SMITH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University, USA. His books include Globalization: A Systematic Marxian

• Introduction; B.Ollman & T.Smith Why Dialectics? Why Now?; B.Ollman Dialectics and Systems Theory; R.Levins John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology; J.B.Foster I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse; B. Livant The Dialectics of Emergence; L. Sève The Dialectics of Spacetime; D. Harvey Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites; F.Jameson The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs; B.Livant Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness; I.Mészáros Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács; M.Löwy Dialectics and Revolution, Now; S.Michael-Matsas The Dialectics of Globalization; T.Smith The Hole in Hegel's Bagel; B.Livant The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation; T.T.Sekine Systematic Dialectic; C.J.Arthur Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the New Century; N.Hartstock Dialectic as Praxis; J.Kovel Livant's Cure for Baldness; B.Livant Dialectics and Wisdom; I.Gollobin Index