'Historical Materialism'

["Barry Buitekant" <Barry.Buitekant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Issue No 4 of 'Historical Materialism - research in critical marxist theory' has
just been issued. It has 320 pages.   The contents are:   Symposium: Robert
Brenner and the World Crisis (Part 1) Editorial Introduction   Alex Callinicos
Capitalism, Competition and Profits: A Critique of Robert Brenner's Theory of
Crisis   Gugliemlo Carchedi A Missed Opportunity: Orthodox Versus Marxist Crises
Theories   Simon Clarke Capitalist Competition and the Tendency to
Overproduction: Comments on Brenner's 'Uneven Development and the Long Downturn'
  Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy Brenner on Distribution   Chris Harman
Footnotes and Fallacies:
A Comment on Robert Brenner's 'The Economics of Global Turbulence'   David
Laibman Perspectives on Brenner   Michael A. Lebowitz In Brenner, Everything is
Reversed   Fred Moseley The Decline of the Rate of Profit in the Post-war United
States Economy: Due to Increased Competition or Increased Unproductive Labour?  
Murray Smith The Necessity of Value Theory: Brenner's Analysis of the 'Long
Downturn' and Marx's Theory of Crisis   Ellen Meiksins Wood Horizontal
Relations: A Note on Brenner's Heresy   Article Alan Johnson Introduction: Hal
Draper: A Biographical Sketch   Hal Draper The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of
Party': Or What They Did to What Is To Be Done   Intervention Tony Smith The
Relevance of Systematic Dialetics to Marxism Thought: A Reply to Rosenthal  
Reviews Matthew Worley on Recent British Communist History Edwin A. Roberts on
Praxis American Style Charles Post on Terence J. Byres Alan Wald on Michael Lowy
Rick Kuhn on David Peetz   Conference Report Emma Bircham on 'Historical
Materialism and Globalisation' at Warwick, 1999   The cost of the journal is
$12.50 or £8.00 plus postage and is available from Porcupine Bookcellar.   If
you are interested in obtaining a copy please contact me at
barry.buitekant@xxxxxxxxx for details of how to pay.   Back issues are also
available.   Barry Buitekant