Monopoly-Finance Capital
December 1, 2006
The year now ending marks the fortieth anniversary of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Article Category: Vol. 58, No. 07 (December 2006)
The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
December 1, 2006
Gerald Sussman teaches urban studies and communications at Portland State University and has published widely on the international political economy of information technology, mass media, and development. His most recent… READ MORE
Beyond Liberal Globalization: A Better or Worse World?
December 1, 2006
Samir Amin is director of the African office (in Dakar, Senegal) of the Third World Forum, an international nongovernmental association for research and debate, and chair of the World Forum… READ MORE
Socialism and the Knowledge Economy: Cuban Biotechnology
December 1, 2006
Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila is director of the Center for Molecular Immunology in Havana, Cuba.�This essay was adapted from Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila, “La economía del conocimiento y el socialismo,”… READ MORE
Pushing the Clock Hands Back
December 1, 2006
Important bloated men squat on the facts�thinking they can hide them with their weight:�men who think their power like King Canute�ordering the sea to behave, can abolish�the eons slow inexorable… READ MORE
Can’t You See It Coming?
December 1, 2006
Fires crackle in the brittle trees�bled dry by drought, the grass,�bleached straw on the dusty hills�where rain no longer falls�in what used to be its season. � Polar bears fight… READ MORE