Monthly Review Press: 144 books
by Thomas C. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
"In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to...
Reconstructing Lenin
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial...
From Commune to Capitalism
How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy. From the...
In Walt We Trust
How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the discomfort and unease you experience...
Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space
Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga...
Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention – and respect – to “ordinary” human beings of all classes...
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism
Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx’s writings
Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, Marx held an inherent...
by Hal Draper
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
The Disinherited
Journal of a Palestinian Exile
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
by Salim Lamrani
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant...
by E. P. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1978
This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England’s most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson’s famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism...
Mapping My Way Home
Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There...
The Politics of Immigration
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants and supporters organized in cities and small towns across the United States to defend their rights following the passage of HR4437, a bill designed to punish unauthorized immigrants. In an unprecedented show of force, tens of thousands of workers marched...