Book Note

• The Wall Street Bailout: An Insider’s View by Robert Rhodes

Correspondence

• Not Naming Names by Michael Meeropol
• The Limits of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis as an Explanation of the Crisis by Thomas I. Palley
• Listen Keynesians, It’s the System! Response to Palley by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• Prophets of the ‘Permanent War Economy’ by Ernest Haberkern
• A Guaranteed Annual Income Will Not Work by Ken Collier
• Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
• Empire—American as Apple Pie by Kent A. MacDougall
• LULA WON! by Maurice Brazin
• Post-Apartheid South Africa by Jeremy Cronin
• Starting from Scratch? by John J. Saul
• Between Barbarism and a Solar Transition by Jay M. Gould
• Different Strategies are Necessary Now by Joan Acker
• The Broader Picture by Hester Eisenstein
• Response to Acker and Eisenstein by Barbara Epstein
• We Make the Road by Walking by Rachel Neumann
• California’s Electrical Crisis and Conservation by Jeff Jones
• Reply to Khalil Hassan by Steve Early
• Rejoinder to Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Panitch and Gindin Reply by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
• A Letter to a Contributor by Harry Magdoff

Excerpts

• An Untold Chapter in Black History by Safiya Bukhari
• What Race Has to Do With It by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
• Why Unions Still Matter by Michael D. Yates
• The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism? by Michael A. Lebowitz

Exchange

• What Does Ecological Marxism Mean For China? by Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, Hui Dong, Dezhong Sun and Lichun Li
• Toward a Global Dialogue on Ecology and Marxism by John Bellamy Foster
• Marx and Engels and “Small Is Beautiful” by Samar Bagchi, John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
• On Nuclear Power by Southern California Federation of Scientists and John W. Farley
• On the History of Imperialism Theory by Research Unit for Political Economy
• Rediscovering the History of Imperialism: A Reply by John Bellamy Foster
• Marxism, Metaphors, and Ecological Politics by David Harvey
• Eras of Power by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
• A Critique of Tabb on Globalization by Richard B. Du Boff and Edward S. Herman
• Contextualizing Globalization by William K. Tabb
• A Note on Du Boff and Herman by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Interview

• The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development by Michael A. Lebowitz
• The Assassination of Fred Hampton by the FBI and Chicago Police, Forty Years Later by Jeffrey Hass
• Saying More with Less: Eduardo Galeano interviewed by Jonah Raskin by Jonah Raskin
• United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky by Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Matthew Schivone
• Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There by Linda C. Forbes and Pete Seeger
• Capitalism as a World Economy by Huck Gutman and Harry Magdoff
• Imperial Ambition by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
• Counter–Intelligent by Susie Day
• Creating a Just Society by Huck Gutman and Harry Magdoff
• It’s Not a Postcapitalist World, Nor is it a Post-Marxist One—An Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Evrensel Kultur
• The “New Economy” and the Speculative Bubble by Doug Henwood
• Restoring Memory by Ali Shehzad Zaidi
• The Need for a Radical Alternative by Elias Kanellis
• An Interview with Harry Magdoff by Christopher Phelps and Harry Magdoff

Notes from the Editors

• Monthly Review Volume 65, Number 1 (May 2013) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 11 (April 2013) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 10 (March 2013) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 9 (February 2013) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 8 (January 2013) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 7 (December 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 6 (November 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 5 (October 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 4 (September 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 3 (July-August 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 2 (June 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 1 (May 2012) by The Editors
• Monthly Review Volume 63, Number 11 (April 2012) by The Editors
• March 2012, Volume 63, Number 10 by The Editors
• February 2012, Volume 63, Number 9 by The Editors
• January 2012, Volume 63, Number 8 by The Editors
• December 2011, Volume 63, Number 7 by The Editors
• November 2011, Volume 63, Number 6 by The Editors
• October 2011, Volume 63, Number 5 by The Editors
• September 2011, Volume 63, Number 4 by The Editors

Poetry

• What they call acts of god by Marge Piercy
• Ghosts by Marge Piercy
• Grandfather on the George Washington Bridge, Waterboarding, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Flood—May 31, 1889 by Denise Bergman
• What it means by Marge Piercy
• The poor are no longer with us; These bills are long unpaid by Marge Piercy
• LIBERTÉ by Adrienne Rich
• Three Poems by Marilyn Buck by Marilyn Buck
• A hundred years since the Triangle Fire by Marge Piercy
• Greed beyond Avarice by H. Rae Aston
• Two Poems by Marilyn Buck
• Workingclass nostalgia by Marge Piercy
• For Howard by Marge Piercy
• You, Again by Adrienne Rich
• In Time by Denise Bergman
• Ballad of the Poverties by Adrienne Rich
• Who’s Naïve? by Marge Piercy
• Tobacco Worker by Nancy Morejón
• Happening upon the Exploding Sand Sculpture Competition on TV by Denise Bergman
• Stately vistas of stately vistas by Marge Piercy
• Emergency Clinic by Adrienne Rich

Remembrance

• Credo of a Passionate Skeptic by Adrienne Rich
• Two Letters on Monopoly Capital Theory by Paul Baran and Paul M. Sweezy
• Aimé Fernand Césaire (1913–2008): The Clarity of Struggle by John J. Simon
• The Death and Life of Che by John J. Simon
• Magic Death for a Magic Life by Eduardo Galeano
• With Thanks to Hans Koning by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
• Remembering John Kenneth Galbraith by Martha Sweezy

Reprise

• The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell
• Capitalism and the Fallacy of Crude Underconsumptionism by Jonathan Penzner, Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy
• Lenin and the “Aristocracy of Labor” by Eric Hobsbawm
• An Ex-Marine Sees Platoon by Leo Cawley
• Why Stagnation? by Paul M. Sweezy
• Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation by Stephen Hymer
• The Guilt of Capitalism by Paul M. Sweezy
• The Dialectic of Social Science by Paul Baran
• Financial Instability: Where Will It All End? by Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy
• Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
• No Nukes! by Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy
• The Unanswered Questions by Anne Braden
• Interview with Malcolm X by A. B. Spellman and Malcolm X
• The Murder of Malcolm X by Jigs Gardner
• Preface to the Jubilee Edition of The Souls of Black Folk (1953) by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Negroes and the Crisis of Capitalism in the United States by W.E.B. Du Bois
• How to Spread the Word by Leo Huberman

Review

• Listen to Your Gut by Rebecca Clausen
• The Fall of Libya by Max Ajl
• Memories of the Afro-Caribbean Left by Paul Buhle
• The Man Who Was Over the Rainbow by Albert Ruben
• Cuban Urban Agriculture as a Strategy for Food Sovereignty by Christina Ergas
• Examining the Bases of Power, Inequality, and Human Variation by Stefano B. Longo and Nicholas Malone
• Notes on a Life in Struggle by Sara Falconer
• Repressing Social Movements by Tomás Mac Sheoin
• Whiteness as a Managerial System by Joe R. Feagin
• The Psychology of Culture by L. Richard Della Fave
• Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball and the Plague of the 99% by Stephen Maher
• The Anthropology Wars by Eliza Jane Darling
• Queer Liberation Means Prison Abolition by Victoria Law
• Neoliberalism, Imperialism, and the Militarization of Urban Spaces by Matthew Thomas Clement
• Seeds of Revolts by Younes Abouyoub
• Redwood Warriors Turn Tables on FBI by Margot Pepper
• Trampling Out the Sanctimony by John Womack, Jr.
• A Wisconsin Enigma by Paul Buhle
• Medicine and Empire by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
• An Important Time Recalled by J. Quinn Brisben

Review of the Month

• Who Will Lead the U.S. Working Class? by Michael D. Yates
• Marx, Kalecki, and Socialist Strategy by John Bellamy Foster
• Class War and Labor’s Declining Share by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
• James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy by John Bellamy Foster
• ‘Libor’ing Under the Market Illusion by Ramaa Vasudevan
• The Planetary Emergency by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
• This Isn’t What Democracy Looks Like by Robert W. McChesney
• The Struggle for Socialism in China by Yuezhi Zhao
• Implosion of the European System by Samir Amin
• Harmony and Ecological Civilization by Fred Magdoff
• The Endless Crisis by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• The Bull Market by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
• The Great Inequality by Michael D. Yates
• The Global Stagnation and China by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• Women, Labor, and Capital Accumulation in Asia by Jayati Ghosh
• Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe by John Bellamy Foster
• The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna
• The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy by John Bellamy Foster
• The Internationalization of Monopoly Capital by John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna
• On the Laws of Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster and Paul M. Sweezy