Monopoly-Finance Capital
December 1, 2006
The year now ending marks the fortieth anniversary of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Global
Notes from the Editors, November 2006
November 1, 2006
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations in September drew worldwide media attention not simply because he referred to the current occupant of… READ MORE
Approaching Socialism
July 1, 2005
Harry Magdoff is an editor of Monthly Review. Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is author of numerous scientific… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2004
May 1, 2004
Although private corporations under capitalism have always been heavily involved in promoting war, the direct role played by the private sector in the prosecution of war has traditionally been quite… READ MORE
Disposable Workers: Today’s Reserve Army of Labor
April 1, 2004
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is author of numerous scientific articles; coauthor, with Harold van Es, of Building… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2004
January 1, 2004
Historical materialists are not prophets; they do not predict the future course of history. They are concerned rather with the present as history. This fundamental principle of Marxist thought is… READ MORE