1 WINTER 2001

The Actuality of Historical Materialism

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Theoretical and Political Drawbacks of Post-Marxism Gülseren Adaklı The Poverty of Post-Marxist Politics: Radical Democracy Sevilay Kaygalak Brecht’s Contribution to the Art of Life: Theory of Dialectics, Hegemony and the Verfremdung Effekt Emre Arslan Marxism: The Philosophy of Human Emancipation Ecehan Balta Class as a Relationship and Process Ellen Meiksins Wood Classes as Historical and Social Frameworks Mustafa Bayram Mısır Interview with Bob Jessop Sinan Kadir Çelik - Ebru Deniz Ozan Five Ways in which Critical Realism Can Help Marxism Jonathan Joseph "Individual And Society" Dualism versus Social Relations As the Object of Inquiry of Historical Materialism Nazım Güveloğlu Rethinking Historical Materialism: Open Marxism, Relational Approach and Praxis Sinan Kadir Çelik Forward to Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism Frank Füredi BOOK REVIEWS A Contemporary Critique of Anthony Giddens A. Ekber Doğan Seven Hundred: Anatomy of a State Tradition from Ottoman State to February 28, Fikret Başkaya E. Attila Aytekin ABSTRACTS