Notes from the Editors, March 2011
March 1, 2011
» Notes from the Editors In the United States, it is now three years since the “Great Recession” began, and twenty-one months since it officially ended. Whether or not the end… READ MORE
Articles
The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
March 1, 2011
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Brett Clark and Richard York) of The Ecological… READ MORE
Structural Crisis in the World-System: Where Do We Go from Here?
March 1, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein (immanuel.wallerstein [at] yale.edu) is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. Volume IV of The Modern World-System will appear in May 2011, along with new editions of the first… READ MORE
Mortgaging Irish Independence: From Financial Crisis to Socialist Resistance
March 1, 2011
Julie L. MacArthur is a Ph. D. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. A specter is haunting Ireland—the specter of James Connolly. Connolly was shot… READ MORE
The Latin American School of Medicine Today: ELAM
March 1, 2011
Don Fitz (fitzdon [at] aol.com) is editor of Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought. He is Co-Coordinator of the Green Party of St. Louis and produces Green Time in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2011
February 1, 2011
» Notes from the Editors The two lead articles in this issue of Monthly Review are both outgrowths of important new books published by Monthly Review Press. Samir Amin’s article, “The… READ MORE
The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism’s Tricontinental Vocation
February 1, 2011
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal and author of The Liberal Virus (Monthly Review Press, 2004), The World We Wish to See (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Stephen Jay Gould’s Critique of Progress
February 1, 2011
Richard York is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and co-editor of the Sage journal Organization & Environment. Brett Clark is an assistant professor of sociology… READ MORE
States of ExceptionÑHaiti’s IDP Camps
February 1, 2011
Valerie Kaussen (kaussenv [at] missouri.edu) teaches Francophone Caribbean literature and culture at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She was in Haiti during the January 12, 2010, earthquake, researching the 2004 bicentennial… READ MORE