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The ''Monthly Review'', established in 1949, is an independent
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published monthly in
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. The publication is the longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States.


History


Establishment

Following the failure of the independent 1948 Presidential campaign of
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, two former supporters of the Wallace effort met at the farm in
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where one of them was living. The two men were literary scholar and Christian socialist F.O. "Matty" Matthiessen and
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Paul Sweezy, who were former colleagues at
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. Matthiessen came into an inheritance after his father died in an automobile accident in
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and had no pressing need for the money. Matthiessen made the offer to Sweezy to underwrite "that magazine weezyand Leo Huberman were always talking about," committing the sum of $5,000 per year for three years. Matthiessen's funds made the launch of ''Monthly Review'' possible, although the amount of the seed money was reduced to $4,000 per year in the second and third years by the executors of Matthiessen's estate following his suicide in 1950. Although Matthiessen was the financial angel of the new publication, from the outset the editorial task was handled by Sweezy and his co-thinker, the left wing popular writer Leo Huberman. The author of an array of books and pamphlets during the 1930s and early 1940s, the
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-educated Huberman worked full-time on ''Monthly Review'' from its establishment until his death of a
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in 1968. p. 3-4 Sweezy and Huberman were complementary figures guiding the publication, with Sweezy's theoretical bent and writing ability put to use for a majority of the editorial content, while Huberman took charge of the business and administrative aspects of the enterprise. Sweezy remained at home in New Hampshire, traveling down to New York City once a month to read
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s, where Huberman conducted the day-to-day operations of the magazine along with his wife, Gerty Huberman, and family friend Sybil Huntington May. p. 32-33 Briefly joining Sweezy and Huberman as a third founding editor of ''Monthly Review'' — although not listed as such on the publication's masthead — was German émigré
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(1893-1987). Although his time of editorial association with the magazine was short, Nathan was instrumental in obtaining what would become a seminal essay for the magazine, a lead piece for the debut May 1949 issue by
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entitled "
Why Socialism? "Why Socialism?" is an article written by Albert Einstein in May 1949 that appeared in the first issue of the socialist journal '' Monthly Review''. It addresses problems with capitalism, predatory economic competition, and growing wealth inequal ...
" HTML version available at the ''Monthly Review'' website: "About ''Monthly Review''"
Another key contributor during the first 15 years of ''Monthly Review'' was economist Paul Baran, frequently considered as the third member of an editorial troika including Sweezy and Huberman. A tenured professor at
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, Baran was one of a very few self-identified Marxists to teach economics at American universities during the
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period. Baran worked closely with Sweezy on a book regarded as a landmark in Marxist theory entitled ''Monopoly Capital,'' although he died of a heart attack prior to the work's first publication in 1966. p. 4-5. ''Monthly Review'' launched in 1949 with a circulation of just 450 copies, most of whom were personal acquaintances of either Huberman or Sweezy. p. 43-44 The magazine's ideology and readership closely paralleled that of the independent Marxist weekly newspaper '' The National Guardian'', established in 1948. Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly reached a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2,500 in 1950 and to 6,000 in 1954. p. 7-9.


McCarthy period

During the era of
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in the early 1950s, editors Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman were targeted for "subversive activities". Sweezy's case, tried by New Hampshire Attorney General, reached the
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and became a seminal case on
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when the Court ruled in his favor. In 1953, the ''Monthly Review'' added veteran radical Scott Nearing to the magazine's ranks. From that date and for nearly 20 years Nearing authored a column descriptively entitled "World Events". During the Truman and Eisenhower years, many left-wing intellectuals found a space for their work in the magazine, including a number that would gain in stature in the ensuing liberalized decade, such as pacifist activist
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(1952), historian William Appleman Williams (1952), and sociologist
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(1958). p. 18-19.


New Left era and after

From the middle years of the 1960s, radical political theory saw a resurgence in association with the emergence of a
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in Europe and North America. ''Monthly Review'' grew in stature in tandem with this resurgence.John Bellamy Foster, "Monthly Review," in Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (eds.) ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'' New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1990; p. 485. While remaining an intellectual journal not oriented towards acquiring a mass readership, circulation of the publication nonetheless grew throughout this era, approaching 9,100 in 1970 before peaking at 11,500 in 1977. p. 20-21. While ''Monthly Review'' remained essentially a publication with roots in the so-called "Old Left", it was not unsympathetic to the young radical movement which grew in conjunction with the
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and the opposition to
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and the
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. Among those associated with the 1960s New Left published by the ''Monthly Review'' were
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, Herbert Marcuse, Todd Gitlin,
Carl Oglesby Carl Preston Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011) was an American writer, academic, and political activist. He was the President of the leftist student organization Students for a Democratic Society Students for a Democratic Socie ...
, David Horowitz, and
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. The ''Monthly Review'' editorial staff was joined in May 1969 by radical economist Harry Magdoff, replacing Leo Huberman, who had died in 1968. Magdoff, a reader of the publication from its first issue in 1949, bolstered the already well-developed " Third-Worldist" orientation of the publication, based upon revolutionary events in
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, China, and
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. Certain
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influence made itself felt in the content of the publication in this period. p. 54, pp. 61-64 ''Monthly Review'' became steadily more critical of the
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in the 1960s and 1970s, with editor Paul Sweezy objecting to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the suppression of the Polish trade union "Solidarity" through
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in 1981. p. 24-25. In the latter case, Sweezy declared the incident had proved beyond doubt that "the Communist regimes of the Soviet bloc have become the expression and the guardians of a new rigidified hierarchical structure which has nothing in common with the kind of socialist society Marxists have always regarded as the goal of modern working class movements." p. 30 Despite an apparent decline of the American Left in the 1980s, ''Monthly Review''s circulation hovered in the 8,000 range throughout the decade.John Bellamy Foster, "Monthly Review," in Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (eds.)''Encyclopedia of the American Left.'' New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1990; p. 484. Between 1997 and 2000, ''Monthly Review'' was co-edited by
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, Magdoff and Sweezy.


Publication today

Since 2006,
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has been the publication's editor. Brett Clark is the associate editor, and the magazine also has one assistant editor and an editorial committee.''Monthly Review'' Archives,
Editorial Team
"


Uyghur genocide

In 2020, ''Monthly Review'' republished an article from the Qiao Collective, a Chinese media platform aimed at "challenging U.S. aggression towards China." In response, a group of international scholars signed an open letter to ''Monthly Review'' condemning the article for being dismissive of China's crackdown on Uyghur Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. The letter accused the article of "agnosticism, let alone denialism, towards what is clearly a shocking infringement of the rights of Uyghur people." The lead author of the letter was David Brophy, a historian of China at the
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. Darren Byler, an expert on Xinjiang and one of the signatories, said he hoped the letter would make it "difficult for leftist 'scholar-activists' to continue to promote Xinjiang-related disinformation."


Political orientation

From its first issue, ''Monthly Review'' attacked the premise that
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was capable of infinite growth through Keynesian
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fine-tuning. Instead, the magazine's editors and leading writers have remained true to the traditional Marxist perspective that capitalist economies contain internal contradictions which will ultimately lead to their collapse and reconstitution on a new socialist basis. Topics of editorial concern have included
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, unequal distribution of incomes and wealth. Although not averse to discussion of esoteric matters of socialist theory, ''Monthly Review'' was generally characterized by an aversion to doctrinaire citations of Marxist canon in favor of the analysis of real-world economic and historical trends. Readability was emphasized and the use of academic jargon discouraged. Editors Huberman and Sweezy argued as early as 1952 that massive and expanding military spending was an integral part of the process of capitalist stabilization, driving corporate profits, bolstering levels of employment, and absorbing surplus production. They argued the illusion of an external military threat was required to sustain this system of priorities in government spending; consequently, effort was made by the editors to challenge the dominant Cold War paradigm of "Democracy versus Communism" in the material published in the magazine.Peter Clecak, "Monthly Review (1949—)," in Joseph R. Conlin (ed.), ''The American Radical Press, 1880-1960: Volume 2.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974; pg. 667.
In its editorial line ''Monthly Review'' offered critical support of the
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during its early years although over time the magazine became increasingly critical of Soviet dedication to Socialism in one country and peaceful coexistence, seeing that country as playing a more or less conservative role in a world marked by national revolutionary movements. After the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s, Sweezy and Huberman soon came to see the People's Republic of China as the actual center of the world revolutionary movement.Clecak, "Monthly Review (1949—)," p. 671. ''Monthly Review'' never aligned with any specific
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ary movement or political organization. Many of its articles have been written by academics, journalists, and freelance public intellectuals, including
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, Tariq Ali, Isabel Allende, Samir Amin, Julian Bond,
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, G. D. H. Cole, Bernardine Dohrn,
W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up i ...
,
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, Andre Gunder Frank,
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,
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, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward S. Herman,
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, Michael Klare,
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, Michael Parenti, Robert W. McChesney, Ralph Miliband, Marge Piercy, Frances Fox Piven, Adrienne Rich,
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, Daniel Singer,
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,
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, and
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. In 2004, ''Monthly Review'' editor
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told ''
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'': "The ''Monthly Review''... was and is Marxist, but did not hew to the party line or get into sectarian struggles."Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies
''
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'', March 2, 2004.


Non-English editions

In addition to the U.S.-based magazine, there are seven sister editions of ''Monthly Review''. They are published in Greece; Turkey; Spain; South Korea; as well as separate English, Hindi, and Bengali editions in India.


Monthly Review Press

Monthly Review Press, an allied endeavor, was launched in 1951 in response to the inability of the maverick left-wing journalist
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to otherwise find a publisher for his book
The Hidden History of the Korean War
'. Stone's work, which argued that the still ongoing
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was not a case of simple Communist military aggression but was rather the product of political isolation, South Korean military buildup, and border provocations, became the first title offered by the affiliated publisher in 1952. p. 15-16. Harry Braverman (author of ''
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'') became director of Monthly Review Press in 1967. The present director of the Press is Michael D. Yates (author of ''Naming the System''). Monthly Review Press is also the U.S. publisher of '' The Socialist Register'', an annual British publication since 1964, which contains topical essays written by radical academics and activists as was coedited in part by the late Leo Panitch. Titles published by the press in its formative years include
We, the People: The Drama of America
' by Leo Huberman (1932), ''The Empire of Oil'' by Harvey O'Connor (1955), ''The Political Economy of Growth'' by Paul Baran (1957), '' Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Revolution'' ''by''
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(1959),
Caste, Class and Race
' by
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(1948/1959), ''Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil'' ''by'' Andre Gunder Frank (1962), ''The United States, Cuba, and Castro'' by William Appleman Williams (1963), ''Anarchism'' ''by'' Daniel Guerin (1965), '' Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'' by William Hinton (1966), '' Monopoly Capital'' by
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and Paul M. Sweezy (1966), ''Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century'' by James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs (1969)'', The National Question: Selected Writings by'' '' Rosa Luxemburg'' (1971)'', The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays'' ''by''
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(1973), the English translation of '' Open Veins of Latin America'' by
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(1973),
Puerto Rican Obituary
' by Pedro Pietri (1973)'', Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral'' (1974),
Spiks
'' by
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(1974)'', Unequal Development'' by Samir Amin (1976)
''The Arabs in Israel''
by Sabri Jiryis (1976), ''On Education: Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and Writings for Children from “The Age of Gold”'' by Jose Martí and edited by Eric Foner (1979), ''The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ from Marx to Lenin'' ''by'' Hal Draper (1982), ''The Poor and the Powerless: Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean'' by Clive Y. Thomas, ''
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: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth'' ''by'' Hans Koning (1987) and '' Eurocentrism'' (1989) by Samir Amin. In later years, Monthly Review Press has published such titles as '' Discourse on Colonialism'' by
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(1995), ''Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War'' by
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(1994)'', Haiti: State Against Nation'' by Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1996), ''The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Robert W. McChesney (2000), ''Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society'' by
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(2000), ''Biology under the Influence'' by Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins (2007), '' Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution'' ''by'' Clairmont Chung (2008), ''The Great Financial Crisis'' by Fred Magdoff and
John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the '' Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological cri ...
(2009), ''America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth'' ''by'' Henry A. Giroux (2013), ''Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science'' ''by'
Rob Wallace
(2016),
Fighting Two Colonialisms: Women in Guinea-Bissau
' ''by'' Stephanie J. Urdang (1975/2017), ''The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century'' ''by''
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(2020), as well as '' Marx's Ecology,''
The Return of Nature
' and other titles by Monthly Review Magazine editor
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.


''MRzine''

From 2005 to 2016, ''Monthly Review'' published an associated website, ''MRzine''. At its closure, ''Monthly Review'' announced that it would maintain an online archive of the site.


Abstracting and indexing

According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2014
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of 0.460, ranking it 107th out of 161 journals in the category "Political Science".


Editors

''Monthly Review'' ''Magazine'' has had six editors listed on its masthead: * Paul Sweezy, from 1949 to his death in 2004 * Leo Huberman from 1949 to his death in 1968 * Harry Magdoff from 1969 to his death in 2006 *
Ellen Meiksins Wood Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 January 14, 2016) was an American-Canadian Marxist political theorist and historian. Biography Wood was born in New York City on April 12, 1942, as Ellen Meiksins one year after her parents, Latvian Jews a ...
, 1997–2000 * Robert W. McChesney, 2000–2004 *
John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the '' Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological cri ...
, May 2000–present Harry Braverman became director of ''Monthly Review Press'' in 1967, and the present director of the Press is Michael D. Yates.


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Further reading

* Paul A. Baran, ''The Longer View.'' New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969. * Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, ''Rethinking Marxism: Essays for Harry Madgoff and Paul Sweezy.'' Brooklyn, NY: Audomedia, 1985. * *
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'', November 1, 1987. * Robert W. McChesney,
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