| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | The Affirmation, Development, and Negation of Marxism | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | From the Whatever to the Dialectical Materialist Approach | 22 |
| Ch. 3 | Competing Models of the Socialist Economy | 52 |
| Ch. 4 | The Reassessment of the Socialist Economic System | 85 |
| Ch. 5 | The Noncompeting Nature of the Socialist Political System | 121 |
| Ch. 6 | The Reassessment of the Socialist Political System | 153 |
| Ch. 7 | The Reconceptualization of Socialism | 183 |
| Ch. 8 | The Response to the "Liberal" Reassessment of Socialism | 214 |
| Ch. 9 | The Chinese and Soviet Reassessments of Socialism: A Comparison | 237 |
| Ch. 10 | The Post-Mao Reassessment of Socialism and the Chinese Socialist Experience | 258 |
| Notes | 277 |
| References | 329 |
| Index | 341 |
