PART I.  VALUE IN MARXIST POLITICAL ECONOMY

Abstract Labor and Commodity Production
   by John Weeks

The Utility of Value: The 'New Solution,' Unequal Exchange, and Crisis
   by James N. Devine

The Concept of Value in Marx: A Reinterpretation
   by Ajit Sinha


PART II.  HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S. SOCIAL FORMATION

Class, Race, and Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation 
for the Pecularities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present
   by Michael Goldfield

The Resolution of Crisis in American Economic History: Social Structures of Accumulation and Stages of Capitalism
   by Terrence McDonough


PART III.  SOCIALISM VIS-A-VIS THE SOVIET SOCIAL FORMATION

Karl Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
   by John Ehrenberg

The Nature of the Disintegration of the Stalinist System of the USSR
   by Hillel Ticktin

The State and the Dominant Class in the Soviet Perestroika
   by Patrick Flaherty


294 Pages, 1990