September 1, 2019
Margaret Benston’s publication fifty years ago of “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” commemorated in the present issue of Monthly Review, sparked a revolution in Marxian thought, generating a new… READ MORE
September 1, 2019
Margaret Benston (1937–91) was a faculty member of the Chemistry Department at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation” was first published in Monthly… READ MORE
September 1, 2019
Lise Vogel, a veteran of the civil rights and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s, is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Rider University. She lives in New York and is… READ MORE
September 1, 2019
Martha E. Gimenez is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction (Leiden: Brill, 2018).* It is… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
Cover image: “Trump” by Stefan Gua. Gua is a Mauritian artist and political activist who believes that art should be a crucial element in building movements for change. He works… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
The single most influential work on imperialism remains V. I. Lenin’s classic study of a century ago, Imperialism: The Latest Stage of Capitalism (better known by the title given to… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emerita at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her books include Peasant Class Differentiation (1987), The Long Transition (1999), and… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books. This article is adapted from parts of the prologue of the… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
Intan Suwandi is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. This article is adapted from her book, Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism, winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy-Paul A…. READ MORE
July 1, 2019
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an… READ MORE