Notes from the Editors, November 2018
November 1, 2018
The Review of the Month for this issue of Monthly Review, “Value Isn’t Everything” by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, was written for the Autumn 2018 issue of the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: History
Renminbi: A Century of Change
November 1, 2018
Sit Tsui is an associate professor at the Rural Reconstruction Institute at Southwest University, Chongqing. Qiu Jiansheng is a lecturer at the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits at… READ MORE
Cuba’s First Military Doctors
November 1, 2018
Don Fitz is on the Editorial Board of Green Social Thought, which is sent to members of The Greens/Green Party USA. He is newsletter editor for the Green Party of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2018
October 1, 2018
The loss of Samir Amin, who died at age eighty-six on August 12, 2018, leaves the world bereft of the greatest single theorist of imperialism of the late twentieth and… READ MORE
The Communist Manifesto, 170 Years Later
October 1, 2018
Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books, most recently Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capitalism, and Marx’s Law of… READ MORE
On the Nature of the Chinese Economic System
October 1, 2018
Zhiming Long is an assistant professor at the School of Marxism of the Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Rémy Herrera is a researcher at the National Center of… READ MORE
The Radicalization of Dashiell Hammett
October 1, 2018
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
She Works Like a Man; If a Woman’s Word
September 1, 2018
She Works Like a Man “She works like a man,” that’s whatthe neighbors said. To her daughter’sintensest shame, she works in the fields,like a mule, or man. While the mothersof… READ MORE
No Empires, No Dust Bowls: Ecological Disasters and the Lessons of History
July 1, 2018
Hannah Holleman is an assistant professor of sociology at Amherst College and the author of Dust Bowls of Empire, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Today we are living in a… READ MORE
Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder: Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
July 1, 2018
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). A… READ MORE