Monthly Review Press

In the public eye: “Silencing Fighting Bob: The Attack on Antiwar Progressives During the First World War”

In the public eye: “Silencing Fighting Bob: The Attack on Antiwar Progressives During the First World War”

The latest: "The memory of the courageous, charismatic Robert F. La Follette deserves more attention as rising authoritarianism and an unpopular war once again coincide. Tens of thousands of Americans suffered government repression during and after World War I. For many, this meant exile or prison sentences. Bob La Follette has the distinction of being the anti-war senator hounded and pursued by the administration of a liberal Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. He came back from persecution to run for president...."
In the public eye: Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

In the public eye: Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

The latest: "....Over dammen var livet enklere. I løpet av krigen utviklet Frankfurterskolen sin virksomhet og bygget opp det som skulle bli deres ubestridte merkevare: «kritisk teori». Gjennom de neste tiårene skulle denne gruppa av tyske eksilanter opparbeide seg heltestatus blant akademikere over hele verden. Nå har imidlertid den amerikanske filosofen Gabriel Rockhill kastet sine kritiske øyne på aktiviteten til dette intellektuelle arbeidslaget – også kjent som Frankfurterskolen...."

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."

In the public eye: Andy Merrifield

"Roses for Gramsci," excerpted: '“The seeds have been very slow in pushing up small sprouts,” he tells Tatiana, again maybe referring to himself and to the life of a Marxist radical; “an entire series obstinately insists on living an underground life.” Each day, Gramsci says, he’s seized by the temptation to pull at them a little, making them grow a little faster.....'
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...