Monthly Review Press: 144 books
Facing the Anthropocene
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business...
Marxs Ecology
Materialism and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development...
Trump in the White House
Tragedy and Farce
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Remember that metaphor about the frog that slowly cooks to death in the pot of increasingly warm water? Leftists have used it for years to describe how people can accept dwindling health care, fading job opportunities, eroding racial and gender equality—as long as the loss occurs gradually. Now,...
by Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
In this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American studies program at Princeton...
Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror
U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars
in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade
and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has
been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize
Colombian society. This book...
The Contradictions of "Real Socialism"
The Conductor and the Conducted
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
What was “real socialism”—the term which originated in
twentieth-century socialist societies for the purpose of distinguishing
them from abstract, theoretical socialism? In this volume, Michael A.
Lebowitz considers the nature, tendencies, and contradictions of those
societies. Beginning with...
by Tadeusz Kowalik
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing"...
Walter Rodney
A Promise of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London....
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on...
Social Structure and Forms of Conciousness, Volume 2
The Dialectic of Structure and History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In The Dialectic of Structure and History, Volume Two of Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, István Mészáros brings the comprehension of our condition and the possibility of emancipatory social action beyond the highest point reached to date. Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual...
Rethinking Revolution
Socialist Register 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as...
The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What to make of the Tea Party? To some, it is a grassroots movementaiming to reclaim an out-of-touch government for the people.To others, it is a proto-fascist organization of the misinformed andmanipulated lower middle class. Either way, it is surely one of themost significant forms of reaction in...
Silvertown
The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factory
was the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the London
industrial district which bore his name: Silvertown. Once referred
to as the “Abyss” by Jack London, Silvertown was notorious for
oppressive working conditions and...
Race to Revolution
The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined
and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between
the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections
among slavery, Jim Crow, and...