Notes from the Editors, October 2013
October 1, 2013
A sign of the crass economic culture of our times is the recent release by Hasbro of the game “Monopoly Empire” based on the well-known “Monopoly” game, first mass produced… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
The Epochal Crisis
October 1, 2013
Parts of the argument on epochal crisis here were presented in three overlapping keynote addresses in: (1) Esslingen, Germany on May 30, 2013 at a conference on Marxist thought organized… READ MORE
Lessons from Iceland: Capitalism, Crisis, and Resistance
October 1, 2013
Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His latest book is Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives (Monthly Review Press, 2013). The author would like… READ MORE
Identity Politics and Left Activism
October 1, 2013
Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. He is the author of The Modern World-System (4 vols.; new edition, 2011). Grace Lee Boggs, with Scott Kurashige, The Next… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2013
September 1, 2013
When confronted in the 1980s with the failure of the younger generation of economists (both mainstream and radical) to take seriously the issue of the return of economic stagnation, Harry… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2013
July 1, 2013
buy this issue A Note from Bob McChesney. This could be retitled “Notes from a Former Editor” as I served with John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, and Paul Sweezy as… READ MORE
The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction
July 1, 2013
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His latest book, written with Robert W. McChesney, is The Endless Crisis: How… READ MORE
Theses on Advertising
July 1, 2013
Originally published in Science & Society 28, no. 1 (Winter 1964: 20–30). � Confronted with a progressive deterioration and an increasing “Americanization” of mass media in Britain, the British Labor… READ MORE
The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
July 1, 2013
This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited… READ MORE
The Existing Alternatives in Communications
July 1, 2013
I. Communications Systemsi � It matters greatly where you start, in thinking about communications. You may start, for instance, in a mood of excitement and even congratulation that at the… READ MORE