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THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE REFUTES AN ESSAY BY PAUL KELLOGG. SHE STATES THAT PAUL KELLOGG HAS CALLED ON CANDIAN POLITICAL ECONOMISTS TO BREAK DECISIVELY WITH DEPENDENCY THEORY, ARGUING THAT NIKOLAI BUKHARIN'S INSIGHTS CAN PROVIDE THE KEY TO RETHORIZING CANADA AS AN UNQUALIFIEDLY ADVANCE CAPITALIST ECONOMY. QUESTIONS ARE RAISED ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF BUKHARIN'S EMPHASIS ON STATE CAPITALISM AND THE NATIONALIZATION OF CAPITIST INTERESTS IN THE LIGHT OF CANADA'S CURRENT STRATEGY OF MARKET-LED CONTINENTALISM. FINALLY, THE ARGUMENT IS MADE THAT CAPITALIST LAWS OF MOTION CAN PROVIDE ONLY A STARTING POINT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CANADA.

Many Left organizations pride themselves on their commitment to women's liberation, and socialist feminism is a real and important current of Left praxis. Nonetheless, there is also a long history that demonstrates a remarkable persistence of sexist practices within socialist organizations. This article suggests that sexist practices, as well as feminist analyses of and responses to sexism, have been epistemologically minimized, dismissed, distorted and ultimately forgotten, enabling a normalization of patriarchal hegemony on the Left, and producing what the late Charles Mills termed an "epistemology of ignorance." To demonstrate this, the article draws on three case studies, spanning recent and distant history of socialist organizing: the crisis of the International Socialist Tendency and Socialist Workers' Party UK (2010-13); the founding period of the International Socialists in Canada (1975-6); and the Bolshevik-Menshevik division in Tsarist Russia (1902-3). The argument is based on extensive original research including four decades of personal archives from socialist and feminist praxis.

Iulli Martov, Lenin's contemporary and a prominent figure in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, was a prolific writer whose work was lost to history after decades of censorship. This translation of his 1919 monograph about the pivotal role of a temporary new class of peasants-in-uniform during the Russian Revolution makes his work available in English for the first time in a hundred years.

"Beginning in 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was divided into opposing sections, one led by Vladimir Lenin, the other by Iulii Martov. Until 1917, both Lenin and Martov were equally prominent figures in Russian politics. Martov, an anti-war socialist intellectual from a Jewish background, wrote prolifically for a number of important publications inside and outside Russia. Although the books, articles, and pamphlets written by Lenin during the same period remain readily available today, those by Martov are extremely hard to find in their original Russian or in translation. Following Martov's untimely death in 1923, a Russian-language edition of one of his books, World Bolshevism, was published. But it was only in 2000, after decades of extreme censorship, that parts of the book were legally published in Russia. In English, this work has reached the public in pieces, often as a part of pamphlets with limited circulation. This edition, which includes an introduction by Paul Kellogg that contextualizes the work and reintroduces Martov as an important thinker to a twenty-first century readership, makes Martov's work available in its complete form for the first time in a hundred years."--