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The cover of the issue of Monthly Review from December,1988.

The first issue of Monthly Review appeared in May 1949 as the United States was beginning its drive toward the Cold War. It featured the lead article Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein. During the McCarthy era of the early 1950s, its original editors Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman were targeted as Communist agents. Sweezy's case, tried by New Hampshire Attorney General, went all the way to the Supreme Court and became a seminal case on free speech when they ruled in his favor. The magazine survived McCarthyism and continued to grow into the 1970s. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (814x1246, 333 KB) Summary A Monthly Review from December 1988 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (814x1246, 333 KB) Summary A Monthly Review from December 1988 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... For the generic term for a high-tension struggle between countries, see cold war (war). ... Albert Einstein photographed by Oren J. Turner in 1947. ... McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxian economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review. ... Leo Huberman (October 17, 1903 - November 9, 1968) was an American socialist who founded and co-edited Monthly Review. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States of America. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Since its inception, Monthly Review has been a consistent and outspoken voice for socialism and against American Imperialism. The editors of Monthly Review are prominent Marxists, but are independent, not aligned with a particular existing revolutionary movement (although they were early admirers of the Cuban Revolution). In the pages of the Monthly Review, Marxism is not a political party but a philosophy; a looking-glass with which to view society. Its articles tend to be written mostly by academics — and researched and referenced as such — but are free of academic jargon. Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. ... Marxism is the social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... It has been suggested that Revolutionary be merged into this article or section. ... The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Jargon is a type of terminology which is used in conjunction with a specific activity, e. ...

Founding editor Paul Sweezy has said the mission of Review "is to see the present as history." The magazine enjoys a steady readership and is more influential outside the U.S. than inside it.

Monthly Review Press, an allied endeavor, has published many political books, such as Fanshen by William Hinton, Labour and Monopoly Capital by Harry Braverman, The Development of Underdevelopment by Andre Gunder Frank, Unequal Development by Samir Amin and the English translation of The Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano. William H. Hinton (February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American Marxist best known for Fanshen, a chronicle of how land reform was implemented in a single northern Chinese village. ... Harry Braverman (1920 – 1976) was an American Communist and political writer. ... Image:AGF2a. ... Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author, born in 1931. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language — the source text — and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language — called the target text, or the translation. ... Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is a radical Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. ...

Editors

Monthly Review has had just six editors in its entire history, two of whom are currently still involved:

• 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, 1997-2000
• Robert McChesney, 2000-2004
• John Bellamy Foster, May 2000 to the present

Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxian economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review. ... Leo Huberman (October 17, 1903 - November 9, 1968) was an American socialist who founded and co-edited Monthly Review. ... Harry Magdoff Henry Samuel Magdoff (August 21, 1913 – January 1, 2006), was a prominent American socialist commentator. ... Robert McChesney is a media critic, academic, and activist. ...

External link

• Monthly Review website