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In the public eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

In the public eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

The latest: NYC/Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto convened a show curated by Gabriel Orozco, featuring Ariel Schlesinger of Forensic Architecture, Minerva Cuevas, Petrit Halilaj, Robert Longo, Roman Ondak, Wilfredo Prieto, Zoe Leonard, and special guests. The prompt to which the artists responded, Einstein's article, "Why Socialism?" The show was listed as a "Must See" in ARTFORUM magazine. Kurimanzutto excerpted the article in full, and e-flux Agenda excerpted the same portion of the article that MRP excerpted in an animated short we produced, visible herein...

In the public eye: Contributors to “A Land With A People”

The latest from Mohammed Mhawish: "We have to ask ourselves: Do we know Hind? Of course we’ve heard her voice, or maybe have seen the building someone renamed after her at Columbia in her honor — which matters, and which she would have deserved, and which is still not the same as knowing her. But do we know her laughter, the way she moved through a room, what she was afraid of, what she loved, the world she was building inside herself at six years old? We learn none of it from the film. We learn it, if we learn it at all, from the interviews her mother gave on the side, on other people’s platforms. The film that claims her voice does not make space for her life."
WATCH: The Korean Policy Institute on Izzy Stone’s classic, MRP’s first-ever book

WATCH: The Korean Policy Institute on Izzy Stone’s classic, MRP’s first-ever book

At first no one would touch Stone’s findings – they were too hot. But Stone got in touch with Monthly Review -- and this was the first book we published. Courageously written at the height of the McCarthy era, officials never refuted nor denied the book’s claims, but Stone’s book still got a real audience due to the durable reputation of the journalist himself. Christine Hong, MR author Marty Hart-Landsberg, and Gregory Elich (each of the Korea Policy Institute) and Time Beal discuss...

WATCH: 50 YEARS OF DEPENDENCY THEORY

This year, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Dialectics of Dependency, Monthly Review Press released the first-ever English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini's classic – one of the most important texts in the field of Latin American Dependency Theory. An event celebrating its release was held in mid September at The People's Forum, featuring Cristóbal Reyes (representing his advisor Jaime Osorio), Phethani Madzivhandila, Chris Gilbert and Andy Higginbotham, and co-hosted by Joseph Mullen and Jaime Osorio's coeditor, Amanda Latimer.