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The first volume of "Reason in Revolt" has been well received in the USA. The Anglo-Saxon world has been highly resistant to broad philosophical generalizations and to Marxism in particular. Yet without such philosophical generalizations it is impossible to acquire a rational understanding of the world in which we live.

First exposed by Marx and Engels, Dialectical Materialism is a comprehensive methodology explaining the unity of the laws that govern nature, science and society, from evolution to chaos theory, nuclear physics to childhood development.

Capitalism is reaching a similar impasse to the one reached earlier by Stalinism. The present crisis has all the hallmarks of one of those major turning points in world history where quantity suddenly turns into quality, like a phase transition in physics. The crisis can be explained in quite scientific terms. To do so, however, a knowledge of the Marxist method - of dialectical and historical materialism - is necessary.

Many blame the activities of the US President. But Mr. Bush is only the unconscious agent of historical processes that he has inherited and the existence of which he does not suspect. Paradoxically, by acting in the way he has, he is hastening the demise of the socio-economic system he hopes to preserve. Now, America has the reputation of the most counter-revolutionary force on earth; but we may come to witness a very graphic example of the dialectic of history!

To date, no one has found serious fault with the science of the book. And every new discovery of science serves to confirm the statement of Engels, that "in the last analysis, Nature works dialectically."

First published in England in 1995 to coincide with Engel's centenary, "Reason in Revolt" has been published in Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Urdu, and is now being translated into German and Flemish.