Notes from the Editors, January 2020
January 1, 2020
In December 1973, MR editor Paul M. Sweezy, who had made a number of trips to Chile and was a friend of Salvador Allende (a guest at Allende’s inauguration), wrote… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion
December 1, 2019
Mark Jay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author, with Philip Conklin, of the forthcoming book A… READ MORE
This is our legacy
November 1, 2019
How will they curse us,the 3rd, 4th generations,the ones that survivethe deaths we left them? How could we explainthe world on fire, specieswiped out daily, oceanswith more plastic than fish?… READ MORE
Race and Mystery in Cape Cod
November 1, 2019
� Nicholas Powers is a professor, poet, and journalist. He is the author of The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2019
October 1, 2019
If there is one thing that is clear about the economic situation in the mature capitalist economies, as we write these notes in mid–August 2019, it is that the financial… READ MORE
Green Card
October 1, 2019
It turns out you might be�part of a mass migration (or�an invasion, depending on�the perspective of the speaker)�without even knowing that�your own imperative to go�grows out of the same need�that… READ MORE
She Was My Kind of Scientist: Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
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
On Margaret Benston: The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
September 1, 2019
Silvia Federici was a cofounder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, as well as the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the Radical Philosophers’ Anti-Death Penalty Project. She… READ MORE
Mapping Gender in African-American Political Strategies
September 1, 2019
� Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and served as president of the American Anthropological Association from… READ MORE
Straggling onward
September 1, 2019
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets… READ MORE