Notes from the Editors, April 2015
April 1, 2015
The Review of the Month in this issue (“Chávez and the Communal State” by John Bellamy Foster) focuses on the revolutionary political strategy introduced by Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Socialism
Chávez and the Communal State: On the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
April 1, 2015
On October 20, 2012, less than two weeks after being reelected to his fourth term as Venezuelan president and only months before his death, Hugo Chávez delivered his crucial El… READ MORE
On the Legacy of the International Working Men’s Association after 150 Years: Interview with Marcello Musto
April 1, 2015
Vesa Oittinen is Research Chief at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. His latest publications are Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism, edited with Alex… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2015
January 1, 2015
The publication of socialist books in the United States has always encountered serious institutional obstacles. This can be seen in the enormous hurdles that stood in the way of the… READ MORE
Pete Seeger, Socialist Songster: Introduction
January 1, 2015
Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and culture for thirty-five years; she is the author of scholarly books and articles and the co-editor, most recently, of Dreaming in Public: Building… 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
Popular Movements Toward Socialism: Their Unity and Diversity
June 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
Proposing a Path to Socialism: Two Papers for Hugo Chávez
March 1, 2014
Michael A. Lebowitz worked between 2004 and 2010 as an adviser in Venezuela. His Contradictions of ‘Real Socialism’: The Conductor and the Conducted (2012) and The Socialist Alternative: Real Human… READ MORE
The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative
October 1, 2011
1. The Democratic Fraud Challenges Us to Invent Tomorrow’s Democracy Universal suffrage is a recent conquest, beginning with workers’ struggles in a few European countries (England, France, Holland, and Belgium)… READ MORE