Note from ROAPE Volume 1 Number 1
Terminology: A Guide

Defines the terms: mode of production (the in-phrase of modern armchair marxism); unequal exchange (another fashionable phrase in the modern literature); labour aristocracy (a concept whose relevance to Africa is hotly disputed in the literature); secular deterioration in the terms of trade (another way of saying that the third world has been short-changed over a long period of history); and transfer prices.