Notes on the Contributors The Politics of Change: Ideology and Critique; W.Bonefeld & K.Psychopedis PART I: THE NEW REALITY OF GLOBALIZATION? POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY Globalization, Depoliticization, and 'Modern' Economic Management; P.Burnham The Spectre of Globalization: On the Form and Content of the World Market; W.Bonefeld PART II: 'NEW' SOCIAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY: IDEOLOGY AND CRITIQUE New Social Thought: Questions of Theory and Critique; K.Psychopedis Jurgen Habermas' Reconstruction of Historical Materialism; H.Reichelt PART III: CRITIQUE AND PRACTICE: THE POSSIBILITY OF EMANCIPATORY CHANGE REVISITED The End of the 'Socialist System': Failure or Confirmation of Marx's Views on the Transition from One Form of Production and Society to Another?; M.Godelier Zapata in Wall Street; J.Holloway The Market, the State, and the End of History; J.Agnoli Bibliography Index