The Optimism of the Heart
October 1, 2006
The following intellectual biography of Harry Magdoff is a slightly revised and expanded version of a piece that was posted on MRzine a few days after Harry’s death on January… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Stagnation
‘Let the Dialectic Continue!’
October 1, 2006
William K. Tabb (william.tabb [at] gmail.com) taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… READ MORE
Lessons for Leftists Old and New
October 1, 2006
Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic, and child advocate, is director of the Children and Family Justice Center, a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago,… READ MORE
Four Letters on Capitalism and Socialism
October 1, 2006
Even when Harry Magdoff was writing articles less often in his final years, he continued to compose letters that displayed his keen interest in world developments, the evolution of his… READ MORE
Aspects of Class in the United States: An Introduction
July 1, 2006
John Bellamy Foster’s most recent book is Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006). If class war is continual in capitalist society, there… READ MORE
Harder Times: Undocumented Workers and the U.S. Informal Economy
July 1, 2006
Richard D. Vogel (irvogel [at] netscape.net) is an independent socialist writer and the author of Stolen Birthright: The U.S. Conquest of the Mexican People. Many of the informal economies operating… READ MORE
Women and Class: What Has Happened in Forty Years?
July 1, 2006
Stephanie Luce, sluce [at] econs.umass.edu, teaches at the Labor Center of the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage (Cornell University Press, 2004). Mark… READ MORE
The Household Debt Bubble
May 1, 2006
This article returns to an issue addressed here six years ago—in The Editors, “Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt,” Monthly Review, May 2000. It represents an attempt to update… READ MORE
The End of Retirement
May 1, 2006
Teresa Ghilarducci teaches economics at Notre Dame University and is a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research this spring. She was a member of the Advisory Board… READ MORE
The New Geopolitics of Empire
January 1, 2006
This article is a much expanded version of a plenary address delivered to the Fifth Colloquium of Latin American Political Economists in Mexico City on October 27. Parts of this… READ MORE