Notes from the Editors, October 2011
October 1, 2011
buy this issue Two years after the recovery phase of the business cycle began, officially ending the Great Recession in the United States in June 2009, the capitalist economy continues… READ MORE
Articles
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
Quid Pro Quo? The Question of India’s Subordination to the ‘American Narrative’
October 1, 2011
Vijay Prashad (vijay.prashad [at] trincoll.edu) teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His most recent book, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World won the Muzaffar Ahmad… READ MORE
Black/White Radical Alliances in the 1960s
October 1, 2011
Jane Duran (jduran [at] education.ucsb.edu) teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2011
September 1, 2011
buy this issue We would like to take this opportunity to celebrate our good friend Samir Amin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Samir was born in Cairo in… READ MORE
The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy
September 1, 2011
This article is an extended version of a talk delivered at the Marxism 2011 Conference, University College of London, July 3, 2011. It is no secret today that we are… READ MORE
Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation
September 1, 2011
Stephen Hymer was a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research until his death in 1974. This article is being reprinted as it appeared in the September… READ MORE