Notes from the Editors, May 1999
May 1, 1999
This issue marks our fiftieth anniversary. We’re sure our readers don’t need to be told about the odds against a socialist magazine surviving through this particular half century. We began… READ MORE
Articles
Introduction
May 1, 1999
Christopher Phelps is editorial director at Monthly Review Press and author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (Cornell University Press, 1997). He has written for Monthly Review since 1991…. READ MORE
An Interview with Harry Magdoff
May 1, 1999
� The twentieth anniversary issue of Monthly Review in May 1969 carried the announcement that Harry Magdoff—the independent economist-had officially joined Paul Sweezy as co-editor, replacing Leo Huberman, who had… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 1999
April 1, 1999
What a fuss people made about the recent Olympics scandal. You would think the existence of bribery and corruption in the sporting world came as a great revelation, and that… READ MORE
Mandela’s Democracy
April 1, 1999
Andrew Nash teaches Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. � The Tribal Model of Democracy � In his speech from the dock, at his 1962… READ MORE
Political Reawakening in Zimbabwe
April 1, 1999
Patrick Bond teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management in Johannesburg and is the author of Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1999
by The Editors
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis
March 1, 1999
Stephen Gill teaches in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is the author of a number of books, including Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations�(Cambridge:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1999
by The Editors
February 1, 1999
Back in December, while the January issue was going to press, the U.S. and Britain were bombing Iraq, and Congress was impeaching Bill Clinton. Our publication schedule spares us the… READ MORE
Progressive Globalism: Challenging the Audacity of Capital
February 1, 1999
William K Tabb is professor of Economics at Queens College and of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His book, Reconstructing Political Economy:… READ MORE