Contents

Acknowledgments

Author’s preface

1. Methodology

2. Philosophy and science

3. Dietrich and historical materialism

4. History and economics

5. Socialism scientific and utopian

6. An outline of Marxist economics

7. The economics of Socialism in the 21st Century

8. Socialism or Stalinism?

9. The future of the Cuban Revolution

10. Nationalism and internationalism

11 The state and revolution

12 The Venezuelan Revolution

Postscript Venezuela: Heinz Dieterich the Prophet of Doom –
Or how not to save the Bolivarian Revolution