Articles
History and Black Consciousness: The Political Culture of Black America
July 1, 1995
Manning Marable (1950-2011) was Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and teaches history and political science at Columbia University, New York. Given the George Floyd protests in… READ MORE
The Triumph of Financial Capital
June 1, 1994
This article was originally a lecture presented at a conference organized by the Association of Graduates of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Istanbul, Turkey, on April 21,… READ MORE
Our Kind of Marxist: An Interview with Staughton Lynd
April 1, 1994
Staughton Lynd died on November 23, 2022 at the age of 92. We are republishing this interview from the Monthly Review archives in remembrance. This is an excerpt from an… READ MORE
The Truth About the First Thanksgiving
November 1, 1992
In Memory of James W. Loewen’s (1942–2021) from his comrades at Monthly Review. —Eds. (August 24, 2021) This essay is revised from James W. Loewen’s analysis of American history as… READ MORE
Reflections from Vermont
December 1, 1989
This article was first published in the December 1989 issue of Monthly Review (Volume 41, Issue 07). Now, after two failed Democratic Party presidential nomination bids in 2016 and 2020,… READ MORE
The Political Economy of Hybrid Corn
July 1, 1986
Richard C. Lewontin (1929-2021), the world-famous geneticist and evolutionary biologist, was for many years a close friend, associate, and supporter of Monthly Review, writing numerous times for the magazine and… READ MORE
The Financial Explosion
December 1, 1985
Credit where credit is due. For a long time now we have been harping in this space on the theme of a monetary system out of control; of the wild… READ MORE
In Search of Critical Games
September 1, 1983
� This is the first chapter of Bertell Ollman’s new book, Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (New York: William Morrow, 1983),… READ MORE
Social Security: The Phony Crisis
February 1, 1983
Jacob Morris is a frequent contributor to MR. In a recent speech, the head of the main government workers union in the United States accused the Reagan administration of “bleeding”… READ MORE