Paul Marlor Sweezy

Paul A. Baran

Critically analyzes the American capitalistic system using Marx's view of competitive capitalism as a model

An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Monopoly Capital

Harry Magdoff

Leo Huberman

From Monthly Review, 1954-1970

Vietnam: the Endless War

The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

This introduction to socialist thought is by two men perhaps better qualified than any other Americans to have written it. Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, founding editors and publishers of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review, built an impressive reputation as keen observers, acute analysts, and lucid writers on the world and domestic scenes. In this book, they present in clear and direct language the basic elements of the socialist critique of capitalist society.

Intro to Socialism

Karl Marx

Richard D. Wolff

Stephen A. Resnick

Struggles in Marxist Theory : Essays for Harry Magdoff & Paul Sweezy

Rethinking Marxism

This is the fourth in the magisterial series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the development of U.S. capitalism as it takes place, and covers the years of the 1980s. The authors stress the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and identify, before any other economic commentators, the immense implications of the use of the explosion of debt to attempt to solve the problems presented by the underlying stagnation in the real economy.

Stagnation and the Financial Explosion

Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution

Socialism in Cuba

This is the fifth in the important series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review analyzing the ongoing crisis of global capitalism. Following the multiple interconnected stock market crashes of October 1987, the economies of the capitalist world entered a new and dangerous phase of the crisis that began in the 1970s with the end of the post-WWII boom. Sweezy and Magdoff argue that far from being a temporary setback, the events of late 1987 are rooted in the nature of the capital accumulation process itself and therefore unlikely to be reversed. Their argument is especially prescient when viewed in light of the financial meltdown of 2008.

Irreversible Crisis

Essays largely on Studies in the development of capitalism, by M. Dobb.

A Collective Portrait

F.O. Matthiessen, 1902-1950

Monthly Review

Maurice Dobb

Georges Lefebvre

Paul Marlor Sweezy

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