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Monthly Review Volume 37, Number 8 (January 1986) [PDF]

Review of the Month: “The Regime of Capital” by Paul M. Sweezy
“Historical Materialism and the Catholic Church: The Irish Example” by John Newsinger
“Class, Power and the State” by Joel Kovel
Correspondence: “Who Needs a Strong State?” by E. Ahmet Tonak
Review: “Dialectical Biologists” by Martha R. Herbert, Joseph Shapiro
Review: “The Left Academy” by John Ehrenberg
Review: “The Life and Death of a Peasant Community” by Keith M. Buchanan

Review of the Month: “The Financial Explosion” by Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
“Nicaragua: The Strategy of Counterrevolution” by Kent Norsworthy, William I. Robinson
“Big Mac and the Tropical Forests” by Joseph K. Skinner
“Riding the Waves with the Wall Street Journal” by Dan Subotnik
Poetry: “For a Better Love” by Roque Dalton
“Práxedis Guerrero: Early Revolutionary: Revolution is Beautiful; Forerunner of Feminism” by Rey Devis, Bobbye Ortiz
Review: “Communism in Harlem” by Cornel West
Review: “A Quiet Violence” by Cheryl Payer
Review: “Buried Treasure” by Annette T. Rubinstein
Correspondence: “On India and Mexico” by Firdaus Jhabvala

Review of the Month: “America’s Working Man” by David Montgomery
“Socialism and Spirituality” by Paul Buhle, Thomas Fiehrer
“Dept Trap Peonage” by Chinweizu (anon.)
“The Resurrection of Out-Work” by Bettina Berch
Review: “Cuba’s Economic Performance” by Andrew Zimbalist
Review: “India’s Development Path” by Paresh Chattopadhyay
Correspondence: “Spain: Systematic Torture in a Democratic State” by Hylah M. Jacques

Review of the Month: “The Deficit, the Debt, and the Real World” by Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
“Mau Mau—30 Years Later” by John Newsinger
“Burlington, Vermont: Socialism on the Local Level?” by Beth Bates
“1984 and Beyond: Hope Today” by Ronald Aronson
Review: “Class and Race” by Fred Curtis
Correspondence: “Marxism and the Facts of Life; Reply; How Powerful is the Fed?” by Michael Losonsky, Jr.; Stephen A. Resnick; Richard D. Wolff; Andrew W. Caughey

Review of the Month: “Class and Power in Canada” by Leo Panitch
“The Vatican Strikes Back” by Joel Kovel
“The Philippine Economy” by Charles W. Lindsey
Review: “Back to Bukharin” by Carl Marzani
Review: “Africa: Alternative Perspectives” by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Correspondence: “The Corporate Income Tax — Who Pays?; Craig Medlen Replies; It’s Worse Than That!; Race and Class” by Arthur DiQuattro; Craig Medlen; Henry Park; Steven Shulman

Review of the Month: “What is Marxism?” by Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
“The Uneasy Calm: Third World Debt—The Case of Mexico” by John C. Pool, Stephen C. Stamos
“Class in Marx’s Conception of History, Ancient and Modern” by Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
“Nicaragua Under Fire” by John S. Saul
“Two Elections” by Victor Wallis
Review: “The Crisis of U.S. Trade Unions” by Thomas Michl

Review of the Month: “Four More Years of What?” by Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
“Class, Communalism and Official Complicity: India after Indira” by Amrita Kesselman, Mark Kesselman
“Nicaragua’s Ethnic Minorities in the Revolution” by Philippe Bourgois
Correspondence: “The Way Forward” by Perry Cartwright, Anci Koppel
Review: “The Best-Housed People in History” by Tony Schuman
Review: “The New Cold War” by Joe Stork

Review of the Month: “Money Out of Control” by Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
“Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1984” by Raymond Williams
“The 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics: Neoclassical Economics and Marxism” by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff
Correspondence: ““Religion and the Left”: A Commentary; Do White Workers Benefit From Racism?” by Richard Levins, Robert Cherry
Review: “A Particular Road” by Marc Edelman
Review: “Cruising ‘Nam” by Marilyn B. Young