Food as a Commodity
January 1, 2012
Fred Magdoff (fmagdoff [at] uvm.edu) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. His is coauthor with John Bellamy Foster of What Every Environmentalist Needs… READ MORE
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Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War To Succeed?
January 1, 2012
Robert Joe Stout (mexicoconamor [at] yahoo.com) lives in Oaxaca, Mexico, and his articles and essays have appeared recently in America, Conscience, The American Scholar, and Monthly Review. His most recent… READ MORE
The Center Will Not Hold: The Rise and Decline of Liberalism
January 1, 2012
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and most recently The Law of… READ MORE
Revenge of the Surplus
January 1, 2012
Marc James Léger (leger.mj [at] gmail.com) is an artist, writer, and educator living in Montreal. He is editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century and author of the… READ MORE
Samir Amin at 80: An Introduction and Tribute
October 1, 2011
Samir Amin was born in Cairo in 1931, and studied within the French educational system in Egypt (Lycée Français du Caire). He pursued his higher education in Paris at Institut… READ MORE
An Arab Springtime?
October 1, 2011
An earlier version of this article appeared online at monthlyreview.org. The articles by Samir Amin in this issue were translated from the French by Shane Mage. The year 2011 began… READ MORE
The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative
October 1, 2011
1. The Democratic Fraud Challenges Us to Invent Tomorrow’s Democracy Universal suffrage is a recent conquest, beginning with workers’ struggles in a few European countries (England, France, Holland, and Belgium)… READ MORE
Freedom’s Struggle and Freedom Schools
July 1, 2011
Charles Cobb, Jr. (ccobbjr [at] bellsouth.net), a SNCC veteran, is a journalist and visiting professor at Brown University. His latest book is On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour… READ MORE
On the Laws of Capitalism
May 1, 2011
1. Insights from the Sweezy-Schumpeter Debate John Bellamy Foster In February 2011, while I was drafting what was to become “Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism,” written with Robert… READ MORE