Collection of essays from 1979 to 1998 critiquing postmodernism and defending the Marxian project of the abolition of value, commodity production, wage labour and the proletariat. These essays critique postmodernism as the latest episode of middle-class radicalism, and they explore the alternatives, namely a unified view of history and nature, drawing in part on a recovery of the neo-Platonic sources of Hegel and Marx, which postmodernism, rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger, has been crowding out for three decades.