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Notes from the Editors, December 2014
December 1, 2014
In 1832, when the global cholera pandemic was approaching Manchester—as a young Frederick Engels was later to recount in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)—“a universal terror… 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
Saving the Unity of Great Britain, Breaking the Unity of Greater Russia
December 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
Latin America Confronts the Challenge of Globalization: A Burdensome Inheritance
December 1, 2014
This article was translated from the French by Shane Mage. � The American continent was the first region to be integrated into newborn global capitalism and to be shaped into… READ MORE
Capitalism and the Commodification of Salmon: From Wild Fish to a Genetically Modified Species
December 1, 2014
Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. Rebecca Clausen is an associate professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College. Brett Clark is an… READ MORE
Paul Burkett’s ‘Marx and Nature’ Fifteen Years After
December 1, 2014
This is the foreword to the second edition of Paul Burkett, Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective (Haymarket, 2014). Every book more than a few years old needs… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2014
November 1, 2014
On September 20, 2014, while corporate and government officials arrived in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, organizers and activists from around the world participated in a peoples’… READ MORE
Piketty and the Crisis of Neoclassical Economics
November 1, 2014
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review and editorial director of… READ MORE
Contra Hardt and Negri: Multitude or Generalized Proletarianization?
November 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