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{{Infobox magazine
| image_file = Monthly Review magazine cover-January 2014.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| editor = [[John Bellamy Foster]]
| category = [[Communism]], [[Marxism]], [[socialism]], [[political economy]], [[economics]], [[social science]], [[philosophy]]
| language = English
| publisher = Monthly Review Foundation
| founded = 1949
| country = United States
| based = New York City
| frequency = Monthly (double issue July–August)
| website = {{official URL}}
| oclc = 241373379
| issn = 0027-0520
}}The '''''Monthly Review''''' is an independent [[Socialism|socialist]] [[magazine]] published monthly in [[New York City]]. Established in 1949, the publication is the longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States.

==History==
===Establishment===
Following the failure of the independent [[1948 United States presidential election|1948 presidential campaign]] of [[Henry A. Wallace]], two former supporters of the Wallace effort met at the farm in [[New Hampshire]] where one of them was living. The two men were literary scholar and [[Christian socialism|Christian socialist]] [[F. O. Matthiessen|F.O. "Matty" Matthiessen]] and [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[economist]] [[Paul Sweezy]], who were former colleagues at [[Harvard University]]. Matthiessen came into an inheritance after his father died in an automobile accident in [[California]] and had no pressing need for the money. Matthiessen made the offer to Sweezy to underwrite "that magazine [Sweezy] and 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.<ref name=phelps3>{{Cite journal|author=C. Phelps|doi=10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1|title=Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century|journal=Monthly Review|volume = 51|issue=1|pages=1–21|year=1999}}</ref>

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 [[New York University]]-educated Huberman worked full-time on ''Monthly Review'' from its establishment until his death of a [[heart attack]] in 1968.<ref name=phelps3-4>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 3-4</ref>

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 [[manuscript]]s, where Huberman conducted the day-to-day operations of the magazine along with his wife, Gerty Huberman, and family friend Sybil Huntington May.<ref name=sweezy1987-1>{{Cite journal | last1 = Savran | first1 = S. | last2 = Tonak | first2 = E. A. | last3 = Sweezy | first3 = P. M. | doi = 10.14452/MR-038-11-1987-04_1 | title = Interview with Paul M. Sweezy | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 38 | issue = 11 | pages = 1 | year = 1987 }} p. 32-33</ref>

Briefly joining Sweezy and Huberman as a third founding editor of ''Monthly Review'' — although not listed as such on the publication's [[Masthead (American publishing)|masthead]] — was German émigré [[Otto Nathan]] (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 [[physicist]] [[Albert Einstein]] entitled "[[Why Socialism?]]"<ref name=whysocialism>{{Cite journal | last1 = Einstein | first1 = A. | doi = 10.14452/MR-061-01-2009-05_7 | title = Why Socialism? | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 61 | issue = 1| pages = 55–61 | year = 2009 }} HTML version available at the ''Monthly Review'' website: {{cite web|title=Why Socialism?|url=http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism|access-date=18 January 2014|date=May 1949}}</ref><ref name=AboutMR>[http://monthlyreview.org/about "About ''Monthly Review''"].</ref>

Another key contributor during the first 15 years of ''Monthly Review'' was economist [[Paul A. Baran|Paul Baran]], frequently considered as the third member of an editorial troika including Sweezy and Huberman. A [[tenure]]d professor at [[Stanford University]], Baran was one of a very few self-identified Marxists to teach economics at American universities during the [[Cold War]] 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.<ref name=phelps4-5>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 4-5.</ref>

''Monthly Review'' launched in 1949 with a circulation of just 450 copies, most of whom were personal acquaintances of either Huberman or Sweezy.<ref name=sweezy1987-2>{{Cite journal | last1 = Savran | first1 = S. | last2 = Tonak | first2 = E. A. | last3 = Sweezy | first3 = P. M. | doi = 10.14452/MR-038-11-1987-04_1 | title = Interview with Paul M. Sweezy | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 38 | issue = 11 | pages = 1 | year = 1987 }} p. 43-44</ref> The magazine's ideology and readership closely paralleled that of the independent socialist weekly newspaper ''[[National Guardian|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.<ref name=phelps7-9>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999}} p. 7-9.</ref>

===McCarthy period===
During the era of [[McCarthyism]] 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 [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] and became a seminal case on [[freedom of speech]] when the Court ruled in his favor.<ref name=NYTimesObit/>

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 [[Staughton Lynd]] (1952), historian [[William Appleman Williams]] (1952), and sociologist [[C. Wright Mills]] (1958).<ref name=phelps18>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 18-19.</ref>

===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 [[New Left]] in Europe and North America. ''Monthly Review'' grew in stature in tandem with this resurgence.<ref name=jbf1990-485>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.</ref> 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.<ref name=phelps20>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 20-21.</ref>

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 [[Civil Rights Movement]] and the opposition to [[conscription]] and the [[Vietnam War]]. Among those associated with the 1960s New Left published by the ''Monthly Review'' were [[C. Wright Mills]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Todd Gitlin]], [[Carl Oglesby]], [[David Horowitz]], and [[Noam Chomsky]].<ref name=phelps20 />

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-Worldism|Third-Worldist]]" orientation of the publication, based upon revolutionary events in [[Cuba]], China, and [[Vietnam]]. Certain [[Maoism|Maoist]] influence made itself felt in the content of the publication in this period.<ref name=magdoff1999>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | last2 = Magdoff | first2 = H. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_3 | title = Interview with Harry Magdoff | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1| pages = 54–73 | year = 1999 }} p. 54, pp. 61-64</ref>

''Monthly Review'' became steadily more critical of the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1960s and 1970s, with editor Paul Sweezy objecting to the [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia|Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia]] in 1968 and the suppression of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Polish trade union "Solidarity"]] through [[Martial law in Poland|martial law]] in 1981.<ref name=phelps24-25>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 24-25.</ref> 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."<ref name=sweezy1983>{{Cite journal | last1 = Sweezy | first1 = P. M. | title = The Suppression of the Polish Workers Movement | doi = 10.14452/MR-034-08-1983-01_3 | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 34 | issue = 8 | pages = 27–30 | year = 1983 }} p. 30</ref>

Despite an apparent decline of the American Left in the 1980s, ''Monthly Review''{{'}}s circulation hovered in the 8,000 range throughout the decade.<ref name=jbf1990-484>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.</ref>

Between 1997 and 2000, ''Monthly Review'' was co-edited by [[Ellen Meiksins Wood]], Magdoff and Sweezy.

===Publication today===
Since 2006, [[John Bellamy Foster]] has been the publication's editor. [[Brett Clark (sociologist)|Brett Clark]] is the associate editor, and the magazine also has one assistant editor and an editorial committee.<ref name="archives-editorial">''Monthly Review'' Archives, "[http://archive.monthlyreview.org/index.php/mr/about/editorialTeam Editorial Team]."</ref>

''Monthly Review'' continues to be published as a print magazine with 11 issues per year (one per month with July and August combined into a single, thematic issue). The print magazine primarily publishes original content, including full articles, book reviews, and poetry, with exceptions such as reprises or adaptations of previously published work identified as such. Everything published in the print journal since the launch of the magazine's web site is available for free access, while archives going back to the journal's inauguration in 1949 are available to subscribers. In addition to these articles, the website also hosts [[Monthly Review Press]] and [[MR Online]].

==Political orientation==
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From its first issue, ''Monthly Review'' attacked the premise that [[capitalism]] was capable of infinite growth through [[Keynesianism|Keynesian]] [[macroeconomics|macroeconomic]] 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 [[poverty]], 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.<ref name=jbf1990-484 />

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.<ref name=Clecak667>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.</ref>

In its editorial line ''Monthly Review'' offered critical support of the [[Soviet Union]] during its early years although over time the magazine became increasingly critical of Soviet dedication to [[Socialism in One Country|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.<ref name=Clecak671>Clecak, "Monthly Review (1949—)," p. 671.</ref>

''Monthly Review'' never aligned with any specific [[revolution]]ary movement or political organization. Many of its articles have been written by academics, journalists, and freelance public intellectuals, including [[Albert Einstein]], [[Tariq Ali]], [[Isabel Allende]], [[Samir Amin]], [[Julian Bond]], [[Marilyn Buck]], [[G. D. H. Cole]], [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], [[Andre Gunder Frank]], [[Eduardo Galeano]], [[Che Guevara]], [[Lorraine Hansberry]], [[Edward S. Herman]], [[Eric Hobsbawm]], [[Michael Klare]], [[Saul Landau]], [[Michael Parenti]], [[Robert W. McChesney]], [[Ralph Miliband]], [[Marge Piercy]], [[Frances Fox Piven]], [[Adrienne Rich]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Daniel Singer (journalist)|Daniel Singer]], [[E. P. Thompson]], [[Immanuel Wallerstein]], and [[Raymond Williams]].<ref name=AboutMR/>

In 2004, ''Monthly Review'' editor [[John Bellamy Foster]] told ''[[The New York Times]]'': "The ''Monthly Review''... was and is Marxist, but did not hew to the party line or get into sectarian struggles."<ref name=NYTimesObit>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D9173FF931A35750C0A9629C8B63 Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 2, 2004.</ref>

==MR Online<!--'MRzine' and 'MR Online' redirect here-->==
From 2005 to 2016, ''Monthly Review'' published an associated website, '''MRzine'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->. At its closure, ''Monthly Review'' announced that it would maintain an online archive of the site.<ref name="mrzine">{{cite web |url=http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2017/mr010117.html |title=MR's Upgrade |publisher=Monthly Review |date=December 31, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref>

In 2017, MRzine was replaced by '''MR Online'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, which is described as "a forum for collaboration and communication between radical activists, writers, and scholars around the world." The site frequently republishes online articles from other sites identified at the start of the post, and followed by a disclaimer by the editors indicating that "''Monthly Review'' does not necessarily adhere to all of the views conveyed in articles republished at MR Online. Our goal is to share a variety of left perspectives that we think our readers will find interesting or useful."<ref name="mronline">{{cite web |url=https://monthlyreview.org/about/#today |title=About Monthly Review |publisher=Monthly Review |date=January 1, 2024 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref>

===Treatment of Uyghurs in China===
In 2020, MR Online republished the outline of a report by the [[Qiao Collective]], a "diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression on China," that disputed allegations of genocide and slavery in [[Persecution of Uyghurs in China|China's treatment of Uyghur Muslim minorities]] in Xinjiang and suggested that "the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China".<ref name="qiaocollective">{{cite web |url=https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/about |title=About Qiao Collective |publisher=Qiao Collective |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref><ref name="xinjiangrepost">{{cite web |url=https://mronline.org/2020/10/10/xinjiang-a-report-and-resource-compilation/ |title=Xinjiang: A report and resource compilation |publisher=MR Online |date=October 10, 2020 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref> In response, a leftist organization named [[Critical China Scholars]] wrote an [[open letter]] to ''Monthly Review'' lamenting republication of the report on the ''Monthly Review'' web site. While the authors of the letter acknowledged that the "applicability of terms such as 'genocide' and 'slavery' can be debated," they nonetheless contended that criticizing Western media for "double standards" by pointing out the contrast between harsh condemnation of Chinese human-rights violations in comparative silence or apologies for European and US violations, as well as suggesting that Chinese abuses were less severe than those by Western governments, amount to " agnosticism, let alone denialism, towards what is clearly a shocking infringement on the rights of Xinjiang’s native peoples."  After elaborating on these claims, the authors concluded their letter by expressing hopes that it too would be republished on MR Online, and directing readers to the Critical China Scholars web site.<ref name="criticalchinascholarsletter">{{cite web |url=https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/ |title=Open Letter to Monthly Review on Xinjiang and the Qiao Collective |publisher=position politics |date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref> The lead author of the letter was [[David Brophy (historian)|David Brophy]], a historian of China at the [[University of Sydney]]. [[Darren Byler]], one of the signatories, said he hoped the letter would make it "difficult for leftist 'scholar-activists' to continue to promote Xinjiang-related disinformation."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cockerell |first=Isobel |date=2020-10-22 |title=Leftist defense of persecution of Xinjiang's Uyghurs triggers a fierce response from professors |url=https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/academics-confront-xinjiang-denialism/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=[[Coda Story]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Griffiths |first=James |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1267764906 |title=The Great Firewall of China : How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet |date=2021 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-350-25792-4 |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=321–322 |oclc=1267764906}}</ref>

==Editors==
''Monthly Review'' ''Magazine'' has had six editors listed on its masthead:<ref name=AboutMR/>
* [[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 W. McChesney]], 2000–2004
* [[John Bellamy Foster]], May 2000–present
[[Harry Braverman]] became director of [[Monthly Review Press]] in 1967, and the present director of the Press is [[Michael Yates (economist)|Michael D. Yates]].

==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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Foreign Editions of Monthly Review|url=http://monthlyreview.org/about/foreign-editions|access-date=2013-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818160539/https://monthlyreview.org/about/foreign-editions/|archive-date=2017-08-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Monthly Review Press<!--'Monthly Review Press' redirects here-->==
'''Monthly Review Press'''<!!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, an allied endeavor, was launched in 1951 in response to the inability of the maverick left-wing journalist [[I. F. Stone]] to otherwise find a publisher for his book ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/442609 The Hidden History of the Korean War]''. Stone's work, which argued that the still ongoing [[Korean War]] 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.<ref name=phelps15-16>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 15-16.</ref>

[[Harry Braverman]] (author of ''[[Labor and Monopoly Capital]]'')<ref name="lmc">{{Cite book|last1=Braverman|first1=Harry|url=http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb9401/|title=Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century|publisher=Monthly Review Press|year=1998|isbn=0853459401|location=New York|orig-year=1974}}</ref> became director of Monthly Review Press in 1967. The present director of the Press is [[Michael Yates (economist)|Michael D. Yates]] (author of ''Naming the System'').<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Yates|first1=Michael D.|url=http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb0793/|title=Naming the System|publisher=Monthly Review Press|year=2003|isbn=1583670793|location=New York|oclc=477201729}}</ref> Monthly Review Press is also the U.S. publisher of ''[[Socialist Register|The Socialist Register]]'',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/registeringclass0000unse/page/335|title=Registering class: socialist register 2014|publisher=Monthly Review Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1583674314|editor1-last=Panitch|editor1-first=Leo|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/registeringclass0000unse/page/335 335]|oclc=844308930|editor2-last=Albo|editor2-first=Greg|editor3-last=Chibber|editor3-first=Vivek}} Also see the [http://monthlyreview.org/press/category/socialist-register/ full listing Socialist Register books].</ref> 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 ''[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/we-the-people-the-drama-of-america/ 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''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 0853450765 | title = The political economy of growth | last1 = Baran | first1 = Paul A. | year = 2000 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb0765/  }}</ref> by Paul Baran (1957), ''[[Nkrumaism|Consciencism]]: Philosophy and Ideology for [[Decolonization]] and Development with Particular Reference to the African Revolution'' ''by'' [[Kwame Nkrumah]] (1959),  ''[https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/oliver-cromwell-coxs-marxism/ Caste, Class and Race]'' by [[Oliver Cox|Oliver Cromwell Cox]] (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 Guérin|Daniel Guerin]] (1965), ''[[Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village]]''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 978-1583671757 | title = Fanshen | last1 = Hinton | first1 = William | year = 2008 | orig-year = 1966 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1757/  }}</ref> by [[William H. Hinton|William Hinton]] (1966), ''[[Monopoly Capital]]''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 0853450730 | title = Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order | last1 = Baran | first1 = Paul A. | year = 1966 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb0730/ | last2 = Sweezy | first2 = Paul M.  }}</ref> by [[Paul A. Baran]] and [[Paul M. Sweezy]] (1966), ''Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century'' by [[James Boggs (activist)|James Boggs]] and [[Grace Lee Boggs]] (1969)'', The National Question: Selected Writings by'' ''[[Rosa Luxemburg]]'' (1971)'', The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays'' ''by'' [[E. P. Thompson]] (1973), the English translation of ''[[Open Veins of Latin America]]''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 9780853459910 | title = Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent | last1 = Galeano | first1 = Eduardo | year = 1997 | orig-year = 1973 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/openveinsoflatin00edua }}</ref> by [[Eduardo Galeano]] (1973), ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030639687501600415?journalCode=racb Puerto Rican Obituary]'' by [[Pedro Pietri]] (1973)'', Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of [[Amílcar Cabral|Amilcar Cabral]]'' (1974), ''[https://www.proquest.com/openview/92b2ea613b3eef4950b313a9ecb9a186/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821393 Spiks],'' by [[Pedro Juan Soto]] (1974)'', Unequal Development''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 9780853453802 | title = Unequal development | last1 = Amin | first1 = Samir | year = 1973 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York  | oclc = 477201729 }}</ref> by [[Samir Amin]] (1976), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3010841 ''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 [[José Martí|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]], ''[[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]]: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth'' ''by'' [[Hans Koning]] (1987) and ''[[Eurocentrism]]''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 9781583672075 | title = Eurocentrism | last1 = Amin | first1 = Samir | year = 2010 | orig-year = 1989 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb2075/  | edition = 2nd }}</ref> (1989) by [[Samir Amin]].<ref name=phelps15-16/>

In later years, Monthly Review Press has published such titles as ''[[Discourse on Colonialism]]''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 1583670254 | title = Discourse on Colonialism | last1 = Césaire | first1 = Aimé | year = 2000 | orig-year = 1955 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/discourseoncolon00cs | url-access = registration }}</ref> by [[Aimé Césaire]] (1995), ''Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War'' by [[Che Guevara]] (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 [[Michel Warschawski]] (2000), ''Biology under the Influence''<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 9781583671573 | title = Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health | last1 = Lewontin | first1 = Richard | year = 2007 | publisher = Monthly Review Press | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/biologyunderinfl0059lewo_no07 | last2 = Levins | first2 = Richard | url-access = registration }}</ref> by [[Richard Lewontin]] and [[Richard Levins]] (2007), ''[[Walter Rodney|Walter A. Rodney]]: A Promise of Revolution'' ''by'' Clairmont Chung (2008), ''The Great Financial Crisis''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Magdoff|first1=Fred|url=http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1849/|title=The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences|last2=Foster|first2=John Bellamy|publisher=Monthly Review Press|year=2009|isbn=9781583671849|location=New York}}</ref> by Fred Magdoff and [[John Bellamy Foster]] (2009), ''America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth'' ''by'' [[Henry Giroux|Henry A. Giroux]] (2013), ''Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science'' ''by'' [https://monthlyreview.org/press/watch-john-oliver-and-rob-wallace-on-monkeypox-kinkajou-state-fairs-cute-bats-and-dead-epidemiologists/ Rob Wallace] (2016), ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/523719 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'' [[Gerald Horne]] (2020), as well as ''[[Marx's Ecology]],''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Foster|first1=John Bellamy|url=http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb0122/|title=Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature|publisher=Monthly Review Press|year=2000|isbn=1583670122|location=New York}}</ref> ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_I2T5Lipg The Return of Nature]'' and other titles by Monthly Review Magazine editor [[John Bellamy Foster]].

== Abstracting and indexing ==
According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the print journal has a 2023 [[impact factor]] of 1.0, ranking it 185th out of 318 journals in the category "Political Science".<ref name=WoS2>{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science |title=[[Journal Citation Reports|2023 Journal Citation Reports]] |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |edition=Social Sciences |series=[[Web of Science]]}}</ref>

== Footnotes ==
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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.
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Savran | first1 = S. | last2 = Tonak | first2 = E. A. | last3 = Sweezy | first3 = P. M. | doi = 10.14452/MR-038-11-1987-04_1 | title = Interview with Paul M. Sweezy | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 38 | issue = 11 | pages = 1 | year = 1987 }}
* "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3D7153CF932A35752C1A961948260 From the Left: Harry Magdoff; A Free-Market Failure]," ''[[New York Times]]'', November 1, 1987.
* [[Robert W. McChesney]], "[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/mcchesney060507.html The Monthly Review Story: 1949-1984]," [http://mrzine.org/ MRzine], June 5, 2007.
* {{Cite book | isbn = 0813510538 | title = Radical political economy since the sixties: a sociology of knowledge analysis | last1 = Attewell | first1 = Paul A. | year = 1984 | publisher = Rutgers University Press | location = New Brunswick, N.J. | oclc = 10230097 | url = https://archive.org/details/radicalpolitical0000atte }}

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