About the Author

BERTELL OLLMAN is a Professor of Politics at New York University, 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. His books include Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production, Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics, and The Logic of Marx's Capital.