Notes from the Editors, January 2015
January 1, 2015
The publication of socialist books in the United States has always encountered serious institutional obstacles. This can be seen in the enormous hurdles that stood in the way of the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Socialism
Pete Seeger, Socialist Songster: Introduction
January 1, 2015
Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and culture for thirty-five years; she is the author of scholarly books and articles and the co-editor, most recently, of Dreaming in Public: Building… READ MORE
Mészáros and the Critique of the Capital System: Foreword to ‘The Necessity of Social Control’
December 1, 2014
“This is the foreword to István Mészáros, The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press, 2015). István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has… READ MORE
Popular Movements Toward Socialism: Their Unity and Diversity
June 1, 2014
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books published by Monthly Review Press include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, The… READ MORE
Proposing a Path to Socialism: Two Papers for Hugo Chávez
March 1, 2014
Michael A. Lebowitz worked between 2004 and 2010 as an adviser in Venezuela. His Contradictions of ‘Real Socialism’: The Conductor and the Conducted (2012) and The Socialist Alternative: Real Human… 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
How to Visit a Socialist Country
April 1, 2010
Richard Levins ([email protected]) is a third generation subversive, an ex-farmer, ecologist, and veteran of the Puerto Rican independence movement, Science for the People, anti-war, Marxist education, and other good causes…. READ MORE
Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
November 1, 2008
This article is a revised version of a keynote address delivered at the “Climate Change, Social Change” conference, Sydney, Australia, April 12, 2008, organized by Green Left Weekly. The transition… READ MORE