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The Dialectics of Shopping. Daniel Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 222 pp.

Pyotr Kondrashov takes a deep dive into Lenin's understanding of social dialectics. This exploration gives rise to an approach to that places the active human subject squarely in the center of a revolutionary Marxism that goes "beyond Marx," furthering the struggle for a liberated society.

Challenging conventional theories about the process and impact of globalization, The Dialectics of Globalization is from the Latin America in Global Perspective series. Through comparative analyses of case studies by leading economists, social scientists, and geographers from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, this volume refines the u

Two familiar 'facts' about Marx, Engels and their views are in reality fictions. The first is that Marx and Engels speak with the same voice on all important theoretical issues; that their works supplement each other; and that they had a perfect intellectual partnership. The second fiction is that as Marx grew older, he embraced the positivism and determinism fashionable at the time. The strongest evidence for the second fiction is the claim that Marx approved of Engels's Anti-Dühring of 1877–8 and agreed in principle with other works by Engels, such as the Dialectics of Nature. I attack the second fiction in detail, and then use my conclusions to attack the first. This exposes a divergence between the views of Marx and Engels on classic problems in social science.

Building upon the theory submitted in the previous issue of this journal, this article examines both similarities and differences with Engels' dialectics of nature. It argues that Engels' approach is unsuitable to reveal the specificity of society's movement towards both reproduction and supersession. It then considers the basic features of formal logic and compares them with dialectical logic. It stresses the class nature of formal logic and the conditions upon which the tools of formal logic (rather than formal logic itself) can be employed within dialectical reasoning. Particular attention is given to deduction and verification in dialectical and formal logic. Finally, Part II looks at Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts and argues, differently from other commentators, that the Manuscripts' real importance resides not in Marx's original method of differentiation but in their providing key insights into Marx's notion of dialectics. These insights are found to support the theory submitted in this work.

"Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market, and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency, the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in the production of raw materials and foodstuffs while importing manufactured goods, a process of unequal exchange took shape that created a transfer of value to the imperialist centers. This encouraged capitalists in the periphery to resort to the superexploitation of workers - harsh working conditions where wages fall below what is needed to reproduce their labor power. In this way, the economies of Latin America, which played a fundamental role in facilitating a new phase of the industrial revolution in western Europe, passed from the colonial condition only to be rendered economically "dependent," or subordinated to imperialist economies. This unbalanced relationship, which nonetheless allows capitalists of both imperialist and dependent regions to profit, has been reproduced in successive international divisions of labor of world economy, and continues to inform the day-to-day life of Latin American workers and their struggles. Written during an upsurge of class struggle in the region in the 1970s, and published here in English for the first time, the revelations inscribed in this foundational essay are proving more relevant than ever. The Dialectics of Dependency is an internationalist contribution from one Latin American Marxist to dispossessed and oppressed people struggling the world over, and a gift to those who struggle from within the recesses of present-day imperialist centers-nourishing today's efforts to think through the definition of "revolution" on a global scale"--

Abstract
E.V. Ilyenkov is widely considered to be the most important Soviet philosopher in the post-Stalin period. He is known largely for his original conception of the ideal, which he deployed against both idealist and crude materialist forms of reductionism, including official Soviet Diamat. This conception was articulated in its most developed form in 'Dialectics of the Ideal' (2009), which was written in the mid-1970s but prevented from publication in its complete form until thirty years after the author's death. The translation before you provides for the first time the complete, unabridged and unedited text of 'Dialectics of the Ideal' in English translation, including the author's own subsequent comments on the text.

An exploration of the relation between the "revolutionary impulse" & dialectics focuses on concepts held by members of the Frankfurt School, especially Theodor Adorno & Herbert Marcuse. A discussion of revolution as radical, qualitative change in the system of fundamental institutions is followed by a look at Marx & Lenin's view of revolution; Frankfurt School criticisms of "vulgar" forms of Marxism; distinctions between "revolution" & "counterrevolution"; & the relevance of objectified belief & "false needs" to the possibility of revolution. Attention is also given to the struggle between "positivism" & critical, or "dialectical" forms of thought; the Frankfurt School's notion of the "social totality"; their commitment to the principle of negativity; & resources in the work of Marcuse & Adorno for responding dialectically to substantive obstacles to revolution. It is concluded that politics was the framework of the thinking of Frankfurt School scholars & their attempt to link the politics of revolution & culture has the greatest continuing relevance. J. Lindroth