Social Scientist Monthly Journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences VOLUME 10 SEPTEMBER NUMBER 9 1982 EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik Editorial Note 1 EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen Dialectics of Social Evolution: Morgan, Marx Kitty Menon and Engels Madhu Prasad — Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya 3 EDITORIAL OFFICE The Quest for Socio-Economic Rationality in 424, V P House, Poland and the Crisis New Delhi-110001 — Kalyan Das Gupta 21 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT NOTES PBNo 116 Forty Years of Yenan Talks Trivandrum-695 001 — G P Deshpande 37 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Social Democracy and the Capitalist Crisis: INLAND Mitterrand's New Austerity Drive 3 years : Rs 150 — C P C 40 2 years : Rs 120 OPEC : The Organisation that Slowly Dissolved Annual :Rs 65 AtAf/IV Half-yearly : Rs 35 f^LWuy— SC 44 Single Copy t Rs 6 PLO : Its Background and Activities FOREIGN — Gulshan Dhanani 52 (Annual in U S dollars) Sea Mail : 18 BOOK REVIEW Air Mail (USA and Canada) : 30 In the Struggle for Truth (Other countries) : 24 — Rajendra Prasad 60 Articles, notes, and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.