Alan Woods with 
                             Hugo Chávez
     ALANWOODS was born in Swansea, South Wales, in 1944 into a working-class
     family with strong Communist traditions. At the age of 16 he joined the Young
     Socialists and became a Marxist. He studied Russian in Sussex University and later
     in Sofia (Bulgaria) and the Moscow State University (MGU). He has a wide expe-
     rience of the international labour movement and has been involved in the Marxist
     movement in Spain, where he participated in the struggle against the Franco dicta-
     torship, Latin America and Pakistan. He speaks several languages, including
     Spanish, French, German and Russian.
     Alan Woods is the author of many works covering a wide spectrum of issues (poli-
     tics, economics, history, philosophy, art, music, and science). He is also the politi-
     cal editor of the popular website In Defence of Marxism (www.marxist.com) and
     secretary of the International Marxist Tendency. 
     Among the books he has written we can highlight Lenin and Trotsky: What they
     Really Stood For and Reason in Revolt, Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science,
     both in conjunction with the late Ted Grant, Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution,
     Marxism and the United States,  The History of Philosophy (online),  Ireland:
     Republicanism and Revolution, The Venezuelan Revolution - A Marxist perspective,
     and What is Marxism? (jointly with Rob Sewell and Mick Brooks). His books have
     been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Greek,
     Turkish, Urdu, Danish, Portuguese, Russian and Bahasa Indonesian.
           REFORMISM orREVOLUTION
               Marxism and socialism 
                 of the 21st century
                      To the workers and peasants of Venezuela, 
                  the real protagonists of the Bolivarian Revolution
                                   and of this book.
      REFORMISM orREVOLUTION
          Marxism and socialism 
            of the 21st century
            (Reply to Heinz Dieterich)
              By Alan Woods
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     Reformism or Revolution
     Marxism and Socialism of the 21st century
     (Reply to Heinz Dieterich)
     By Alan Woods
     First published by Wellred 2008
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