Monthly Review – Volume 74, Number 2

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Volume 74, Number 2 Contents

• “Notes from the Editors, June 2022” by The Editors
• REVIEW OF THE MONTH: “Panopticon” by Michael D. Yates
• “Mészáros and Chávez: The Philosopher and the Llanero” by Chris Gilbert
• “Mészáros and Chávez: “The Point from Which to Move the World Today”” by John Bellamy Foster
• “The Roots of the Science-Practice Gap: A Materialist View” by Ricardo Dobrovolski
• “Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable” by Alejandro Pedregal, Juan Bordera
• REVIEW: “The Jakarta Method, Then and Now: U.S. Counterinsurgency and the Third World” by Sarah Raymundo

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Monthly Review began publication in New York City in May 1949. The first issue featured the lead article “Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein. From the beginning, Monthly Review spoke for a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization. In an era of Cold War repression, the magazine published pioneering analyses of political economy, imperialism, and Third World struggles, drawing on the rich legacy of Marxist thought without being bound to any narrow view or party line. The McCarthy-led inquisition targeted MR‘s original editors, Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman, who fought back successfully. Against these odds, the magazine’s readership and influence grew steadily, and in 1952, Monthly Review Press published its first title, I. F. Stone’s Hidden History of the Korean War.

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