ROBERT ALBRITTON is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. His recent publications include A Japanese Approach to States of Capitalist Development, Dialects and Deconstruction in Political Economy and, The Unique Ontology of Capital in Marx's Theories Today. - MAKOTO ITOH is Professor of Economics at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. His books include The Basic Theory of Capitalism, The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism, Political Economy for Socialism and numerous works in Japanese. - RICHARD WESTRA is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. His most recent publication is A Japanese Contribution to the Critique of Rational Choice Marxism in Social Theory and Practice. - ALAN ZUEGE is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is a contributing editor of the Socialist Register and has recently published articles in Monthly Review and Socialist Register 2000.