David Bedford is Retired Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and the co-author of The Tragedy of Progress: Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question.Thomas Workman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and the co-author of The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada and the author of If You’re In My Way I’m Walking: The Assault on Working People Since 1970.

• Introduction: historical materialism and the lingering war on science1: Dialectics and materialist science2: The dialectic of subject and object3: Ontology, relations, and fetishism4: The materialist matrix of classical Marxian science5: The external and internal relationship of theory and reality6: The logical character of Marx’s scientific achievements