A Second Wave of National Liberation?
February 1, 1999
Fawzy Mansour is professor emeritus of political science at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Until recently, he was Chair of the Arab Research Center in Cairo. He is currently… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Theory
Notes from the Editors, January 1999
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
Capitalist Change and Generational Shifts
October 1, 1998
Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review. This article is a modified version of a paper written for the Conference on the 150th anniversary of the CommunistManifesto(Paris,May1998). � Change… READ MORE
The State in a Changing World: Social-Democratizing Global Capitalism?
October 1, 1998
Leo Panitch teaches Political Science at York University,he is the co-editor of Socialist Register.� � There are two central developments that define our era. One of these is the historic… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 1998
July 1, 1998
We write in early June, and these will be the last “Notes from the Editors” until some time in September when things will surely be a lot different from what… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 1998
June 1, 1998
What’s the matter with Japan? According to today’s conventional wisdom—i.e., what we are told by the media and the syndicated pundits—almost everything. Its economy, the second largest in the world,… READ MORE
A Letter to a Contributor: The Same Old State
January 1, 1998
The substance of what follows is contained in a letter to the author of an article we will be publishing in a later issue. The editors, who were shown copies… READ MORE
An Exchange: Eras of Power; Class Compacts, the Welfare State, and Epochal Shifts
January 1, 1998
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A.Cloward are co-authors of The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997) � During the past few years a strong challenge has been mounted in… READ MORE
A Critique of Tabb on Globalization
November 1, 1997
Richard B. Du Boff is professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College; Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In “Globalization Is An Issue…. READ MORE
A Note on Du Boff and Herman
November 1, 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review. � I’m taking the liberty of appending this note because, though Du Boff and Herman’s article is directed mainly at Bill Tabb,… READ MORE