Monthly Review Volume 50, Number 3 (July-August 1998)

Contents of Volume 50, Number 3

• Notes from the Editors
• Introduction by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel
• The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
• Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today’s Agriculture by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
• Agriculture and Monopoly Capital by William D. Heffernan
• Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture and the Possibilities of Truly Sustainable Farming by Miguel A. Altieri
• The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian by R. C. Lewontin
• New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice by Gerad Middendorf, Mike Skladany, Elizabeth Ransom, and Laurence Busch
• Global Food Politics by Philip McMichael
• Rebuilding Local Food Systems from the Grassroots Up by Elizabeth Henderson
• Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality by Janet Poppendieck
• Alternataive Agriculture Works: The Case of Cuba by Peter M. Rosset
• The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China by William Hinton