Published in The Baha'i Faith and Marxism (Ottawa: Baha'i Studies Publications, 1987)
FARZAM ARBAB was born in Tehran and educated in the United States. He received a BA from Amherst College in 1964 and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. In 1969, he travelled with his family to Colombia, where they now reside. Dr. Arbab is the director of FUNDEAC, a program of education and rural development in Colombia. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Colombia from 1970 to November of 1980, when he was appointed to the Board of Counsellors for the Propagation and Protection of the Bahá'í Faith in the Americas.
HOWARD BUCHBINDER is Professor of Political Science at York University, Downsview, Ontario.
GLEN EYFORD is Professor of Development Studies and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta at Edmonton. Professor Eyford's master's and doctoral theses pertained to communication and mass media, nonformal education, international development, and culture and development. He is the author of numerous articles on international and community development. Professor Eyford is a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada.
WILLIAM S. HATCHER is Professor of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Laval University in Quebec City. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University, he received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1963 with a thesis in mathematical logic. He has since published numerous articles and research papers in the mathematical sciences. His most recent book on mathematics is The Logical Foundations of Mathematics (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982), and he recently co-authored with Douglas Martin The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion (New York: Harper & Row,1985), which received mention as one of the year's best one hundred books by the Encyclopedia Brittanica in 1986. Professor Hatcher is an active member of several scientific and professional organizations and, in 1979, was elected to serve a three-year term on the Council of the Association for Symbolic Logic. Professor Hatcher also serves on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada.
JOHN HUDDLESTON holds an honour's degree in Modern History, Economics and Politics from the University of Manchester, England. He is currently the Chief of the Budget and Planning Division of the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC. He is the author of The Earth is But One Country (London: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980), "Marxism: A Bahá'í Perspective," in Circle of Unity (Los Angeles: Kalim½t Press, 1984), and The Search for the Just Society (Cyprus: One World Publishing, forthcoming).
COLIN LEYS is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University and has taught at Kivukoni College, Dar es Salaam, and at the Universities of Oxford, Makere (Uganda), Sussex, Nairobi, Chicago, and Sheffield. Professor Leys has published extensively on Africa, and his most recent book is Politics in Britain (London: Verso, 1986).
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