The Failure of Empire
January 1, 2005
The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire…. READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Stagnation
Empire of Barbarism
December 1, 2004
Brett Clark is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and coauthor of “Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism,” Socialist Register 2004.The original version appeared in October… READ MORE
U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
November 1, 2004
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder (Zed Books, 2004) and The Liberal Virus:… READ MORE
The Commitment of an Intellectual: Paul M. Sweezy (1910-2004)
October 1, 2004
A note on the text: A version of this biographical essay was originally made available on MR’s website a few days after Paul died and was widely referred to by… READ MORE
Paul M. Sweezy
October 1, 2004
Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave,… READ MORE
Why Stagnation?
October 1, 2004
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk given to the Harvard Economics Club on March 22, 1982, and is reprinted from the June 1982 issue of Monthly Review…. READ MORE
Monopoly Capitalism
October 1, 2004
This essay is from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, copyright © 1987 by Palgrave Macmillan and reprinted with their permission…. READ MORE
On the Role of Mao Zedong
September 1, 2004
William Hinton was the author of the classic study of revolution in a Chinese rural village, Fanshen. His numerous books on China made him one of the great chroniclers of… READ MORE
Is Iraq Another ‘Vietnam’?
June 1, 2004
An indication of just how bad things have become for the U.S. invaders and occupiers of Iraq is that comparisons with the Vietnam War are now commonplace in the U.S…. READ MORE
The Illusions of Empire
June 1, 2004
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This article is an abridged version of his introduction to a symposium he edited on Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University… READ MORE