October 1, 2024
Steve Ellner deconstructs the argument that Pink Tide governments elected since 2018 are in a state of “passive revolution,” having betrayed their progressive roots through concessions to conservative elements and capital. This analysis, Ellner finds, fails to capture the material impacts of Pink Tide governments, their strategic importance, or their potential to pull societies toward a more radical leftist future.
March 1, 2023
Steve Ellner is a retired professor from the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 to 2003, and is currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives…. READ MORE
January 1, 2020
In December 1973, MR editor Paul M. Sweezy, who had made a number of trips to Chile and was a friend of Salvador Allende (a guest at Allende’s inauguration), wrote… READ MORE
February 1, 2017
Anthony Pahnke is a visiting assistant professor of political science at St. Olaf College. His research focuses on social movements, agrarian reform, and development policy in Brazil, where he lived… READ MORE
February 1, 2017
Walda Katz-Fishman is a professor of sociology at Howard University. She has worked for many years with the nonprofit organization Project South, the Institute for Elimination of Poverty and Genocide,… READ MORE
January 1, 2017
Ron Augustin is a freelance journalist based in Brussels. � � Aleida Guevara March is the daughter of Che Guevara and Aleida March. She is a pediatrician at William Soler… READ MORE
May 1, 2016
Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part-time in rural New Mexico and Illinois. His books include Medicine and… READ MORE
February 1, 2016
Don Fitz is a member of the National Committee of the Green Party USA and newsletter editor for the Green Party of St. Louis, where he also produces the program… READ MORE
January 1, 2016
Marta Harnecker is a Chilean sociologist and activist. Her books include A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2015). This article first appeared on… READ MORE
December 1, 2015
This article was originally published (along with comments on it by nine other authors, including MR contributors David Barkin, Hannah Holleman, and Fred Magdoff) on the Great Transition Initiative website… READ MORE
