Review of the Month
December 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is an acting editor, of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit:… READ MORE
November 1, 2000
Robert W. McChesney teaches at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is an Acting Editor of Monthly Review. Portions of this essay appear in the preface to the paperback edition… READ MORE
October 1, 2000
Social Security was the crowning achievement of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It has been the most successful and still remains the most popular of all U.S. government programs. More than a… READ MORE
September 1, 2000
Some wags claim that it is the conservatives who fear socialism, while the radicals believe that capitalism will last forever. Conservatives, they say, fear widespread popular discontent, while radicals abandon… READ MORE
July 1, 2000
History, as if to warn us continuously against any tendency toward complacency, is full of ironies. As recently as a few months ago, the close of the twentieth century had… READ MORE
June 1, 2000
Samir Amin is director of Forum du Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal and the author of numerous books including Spectres of Capitalism (1998), Re-Reading the Postwar Period (1994), Empire of… READ MORE
May 1, 2000
It is an old axiom, common to both Marxian and Keynesian economics, that uneven, class-based distribution of income is a determining factor of consumption and investment. How much is spent… READ MORE
April 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is co-editor, along with Robert W. McChesney, of this issue of Monthly Review . He is the author of Marx’s Ecology and The Vulnerable Planet, both published… READ MORE
March 1, 2000
William K. Tabb is professor of economics and political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Restructuring… READ MORE
February 1, 2000
Nancy Holmstrom is professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universityin Newark, specializing in social philosophy, particularly marxist and feminist theory. She is co-editor of Not for Sale: In Defense of Public… READ MORE
