ROBERT ALBRITTON is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. His recent publications include A Japanese Approach to Stages of Capitalist Development, Dialects and Deconstruction in Political Economy and he is co-editor with Itoh, Westra and Zuege of Phases on Capitalist Development. - JOHN SIMOULIDIS is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Beyond the Bad Infinity of Capital: On Marx's Dialectics of Freedom; D.McNally Systematic and Historical Dialectics: Toward a Marxian Theory of Globalization; T.Smith On 'Becoming Necessary' in an Organic Systematic Dialectic: The Case of Creeping Inflation; G.Reuten Superseding Lukacs: Towards a Contribution to the Theory of Subjectivity; R.Albritton Lukacs and the Dialectical Critique of Capitalism; M.Postone From Hegel to Marx to the Dialectic of Capital; J.R.Bell The Dialectic, of Logic that Coincides with Economics; T.T.Sekine The Problem of Use Value for a Dialectic of Capital; C.J.Arthur Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy; P.Murray Marx's Dialectical Method is More than a Mode of Exposition: A Critique of Systematic Dialectics; B.Ollman The Specificity of Dialectical Reason (for Hegel); S.Kourkoulakos Index