December 1, 2001
For a long time radicals have characterized the electoral systems in capitalist societies as “bourgeois democracies.” At times, this term has been used in a strictly pejorative sense, to dismiss… READ MORE
November 1, 2001
MR is not a news magazine. As a monthly magazine with limited resources we are not able to keep up with headline events as they happen. Nor do we believe… READ MORE
October 1, 2001
The fact that the vested interests in the United States are able to rely on a well-oiled propaganda system, in which the media dutifully play their appointed role, is perhaps… READ MORE
July 1, 2001
As many of you know, we sent out an emergency appeal two months ago to raise $100,000 to make up for a cash deficit. We found ourselves in the paradoxical… READ MORE
May 1, 2001
In September 1969 Monthly Review published Margaret Benston’s article, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation”—one of the most important early intellectual contributions to the current wave of feminist struggle in… READ MORE
April 1, 2001
A note to MR readers from Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff: It was just over a year ago that we asked John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney to serve… READ MORE
March 1, 2001
Two decades after the Carter and Reagan administrations launched their attacks on the U.S. regulatory system the world is littered with the wreckage of neoliberal deregulation. Seldom have these failures… READ MORE
February 1, 2001
The attention given to the Florida elections in the US presidential race has highlighted the horrendous fact that in Florida and throughout the South thirty-five years after the passage of… READ MORE
October 1, 2000
In an article on the role of third parties in U.S. presidential elections in the August 21, 2000, issue of In These Times, founding editor and publisher James Weinstein observed:… READ MORE
September 1, 2000
In the United States, the creation of wealth is often presented as a process that benefits everyone within the society. A common shibboleth, made famous during the Kennedy administration, is… READ MORE
