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The Long Revolution of the Global South: Toward a New Anti-Imperialist InternationalThe final writings of Samir Amin--a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movements In this second volume of his memoirs, Amin takes us on a journey to a dizzying array of countries, recounting the stages of his ongoing dialogue...
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Only People Make Their Own History: Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and RevolutionA collection of Samir Amin's ten most influential essays of the 21st century Radical political economist Samir Amin left behind a cherished oeuvre of Marxist writings. Amin's intellectual range--from economics to culture--was admirable, and his lessons remain essential. Monthly Review Press is honored to...
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The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940A primer on the history of American fascism Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism...
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From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban PovertyAn account of China's transition into a global capitalist economy, as agrarian reform in the 1980s led Chinese peasants to industrial cities and into poverty In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land...
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Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological HistoryThe 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global...
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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and WarActs of violence assume many forms: they may travel bythe arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and theymay leave behind a smoldering village or a starved child. The all-pervasivenessof violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and...
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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to SocialismOut of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism - a long transition...
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Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican RepublicThe Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had...
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In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from ItselfLife 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...
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Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual BiographyVladimir 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...
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The Theory of Monopoly CapitalismIn 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital, a monumental work of economic theory and social criticismthat sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of theirtime. Their theory, and its continuing elaboration by Sweezy, HarryMagdoff, and others in Monthly Review...
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Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of RevolutionThe life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of...
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Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in HaitiIn this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti's first democratically elected president,...
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The Unlikely Secret AgentWinner of South Africa's top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The UnlikelySecret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman's struggle against theapartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state isunder siege. One August 19th, the...
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Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume 1: The Social Determination of MethodThis new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science.Today, as never before, the...
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Ecology Against CapitalismIn recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations...
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Discourse on ColonialismCésaire's essay stands as an important document in the development ofthird world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominentrole. --Library Journal This classic work, firstpublished in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation ofscholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles inAfrica,...
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The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. PolicyChomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a Path to a Better World, while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power...
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Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel's new doctrine of disengagement, launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States-brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart...
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Statesman and Saint: The Principled Politics of William WilberforceThis moving biography of Wilberforce tells the story of his religious conversion in 1784 and his rise to leadership of the Clapham Sect - a group of evangelicals active in political, philanthropic, and religious causes. Under his leadership, the Saints, as they were called,...
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