Notes from the Editors, June 2000
June 1, 2000
On keeping the MR flag flying: Between us there are 177 years of life. The issue of continuity has plagued us for some time and we have from time to… READ MORE
Articles
The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century
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
A Question of Place
June 1, 2000
Grace lee Boggs has been a contributor to Monthly Review for over thirty years. With her late husband James Lee Boggs, she co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century… READ MORE
Alienation in American Society
June 1, 2000
Fritz Pappenheim received his Ph.D. in Germany in 1929. He then worked in the fields of adult education, lecturing regularly and taking part in panel discussions on the Frankfurt radio…. READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2000
May 1, 2000
In this issue, we reprint Albert Einstein’s article “Why Socialism?,” from vol. 1, no. 1 of MR (May 1949). Normally this would require no comment on our part, as it… READ MORE
Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt
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
More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle
May 1, 2000
William S. Solomon teaches journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He wishes to thank Richard Smith for his insightful critique of an earlier version of this essay. � The… READ MORE
How the United States Exports Managed Care to Third-World Countries
May 1, 2000
Howard Waitzkin teaches and practices medicine at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Second Sickness: Celia Iriart leads the health policy group of the Central… READ MORE
Rejoinder to Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin; Panitch and Gindin Reply
May 1, 2000
James K. Galbraith is a professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the University of Texas Inequality… READ MORE
Seeing the Forest ‘and’ the Trees: The Politics of Rachel Carson
May 1, 2000
Ellen leopold is the author of A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999). The book includes the correspondence of Rachel… READ MORE