June 1, 1998
What’s the matter with Japan? According to today’s conventional wisdom—i.e., what we are told by the media and the syndicated pundits—almost everything. Its economy, the second largest in the world,… READ MORE
May 1, 1998
Harry Magdoff is co-editor of Monthly Review. � Probably the passage in the Communist Manifesto most frequently cited these days is a portrayal of the global spread of capitalism: �… READ MORE
March 1, 1998
A striking feature of the mountain of talk about the Asian crisis is that its root cause is all too often ignored The focus of the media and the pundits… READ MORE
March 1, 1998
Robert W. McChesney teaches journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (1993)…. READ MORE
February 1, 1998
David F. Noble, co-founder of the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest, teaches history at York University, Toronto. His latest book is The Religion of Technology. He is… READ MORE
February 1, 1998
This article is István Mészáros’s introduction to the 1998 Farsi edition of Beyond Capital, the English version of which appeared in the February 1998 edition of Monthly Review. � —Eds…. READ MORE
January 1, 1998
The substance of what follows is contained in a letter to the author of an article we will be publishing in a later issue. The editors, who were shown copies… READ MORE
January 1, 1998
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A.Cloward are co-authors of The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997) � During the past few years a strong challenge has been mounted in… READ MORE
December 1, 1997
The New Yorker dated October 20-27 carries, along with a generous menu of futurology, a sensational article on the past and present. It is entitled “The Return of Karl Marx,”… READ MORE
November 1, 1997
Richard B. Du Boff is professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College; Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In “Globalization Is An Issue…. READ MORE
