March 1, 2013
The history of capitalism is replete with cases of successful captains of industry who, suddenly concerned with their place in history, decide to write a book celebrating their achievements, while… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
How often we navigate by what is no�longer there. Turn right where the post�office used to be. She lives in a condo�above where the bakery blew sweet�yeasty smells into the… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Christina Ergas is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon. Sinan Koont, Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), 208 pages, $74.95,… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. His research examines the relations between social and natural systems and… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Sara Falconer is a Toronto journalist and social media manager who helps produce Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. As part of the Toronto Anarchist Black Cross, she also… READ MORE
February 1, 2013
For a long time now orthodox economics has been hindered by its extreme irrealism—a refusal even to attempt a realistic theoretical understanding of how modern capitalism functions. The shift to… READ MORE
February 1, 2013
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake up! For the sake of young people,… READ MORE
February 1, 2013
Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Color Purple has been celebrated as a modern literary classic and was made into a film and theatrical musical. She has written several other novels… READ MORE