Monthly Review Press imprint: 144 books

by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover...
by Istvan Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, István Mészáros, the world’s preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the Bolivar Prize), lays bare the exploitative structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great...
by Peter Custers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that...

Hungry for Profit

The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

by
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable...

Health Care Under the Knife

Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health

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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

“I’ve still got my health so what do I care?” goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song. Most of us, in fact, assume we can’t live full lives, or take on life’s challenges, without also assuming that we’re basically healthy and will be for the foreseeable future. But these days, our health...

The Devil’s Milk

A Social History of Rubber

by John Tully
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a uniquelifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on aglobal scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emergingnations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Eurozoneimplosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account.

America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth

Reform Beyond Electoral Politics

by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure...

Columbus: His Enterprise

Exploding the Myth

by Hans Koning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992

"The book is an idea that has finally found its time."--Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."--Kurt Vonnegut

The Ecological Rift

Capitalisms War on the Earth

by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts...

Race in Cuba

Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

by Gary Prevost, Esteban Morales Domínguez, August Nimtz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban,...
by Eric Holt-Giménez
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist...
by Horace Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the prism of NATO’s intervention in Libya. He traces the origins of the conflict, situates it in the broader context of the Arab Spring uprisings, and explains...

Biology Under the Influence

Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

by Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where...
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