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Permissions I am grateful to the following journals for permission to reprint the following previously published materials: “History and History’s Problem.” Winter 1986/7. Social Text 16:136–61. “Ideology and the Metaphysics of Content.” Winter 1983/4. Social Text 8:55–84. “Issues in the Historiography of Communism, Part One.” Spring/Summer 1987. Socialism and Democracy 4:7–38. “Issues in the Historiography of Communism, Part Two: Some Principles of Critical Analysis.” Fall/Winter 1987. Socialism and Democracy 5:1–34. “Left Futures” (with Randy Martin). Spring 1995. Socialism and Democracy 9.1:59–89. “Socialism in Transition: Documents and Discussion, an Essay on Rethinking the Crisis of Socialism” (with Randy Martin). 1991. Socialism and Democracy 7.3:9–56. “Society Against the State: The Fullness of the Primitive.” Fall 1978. October 6:61–75. ...

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