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Monthly Review Volume 65, Number 3 (July-August 2013) 1 Jul 2013 | 09:15 am
» Notes from the Editors buy this issue A Note from Bob McChesney. During my time as coeditor [of MR], communication colleagues would sometimes wonder what I was doing at MR. After all, I was a media...
The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital 1 Jul 2013 | 09:14 am
The past half-century has been dominated by the rise of media to a commanding position in the social life of most people and nations, to the point where it is banal to regard this as the “information ...
Theses on Advertising 1 Jul 2013 | 09:13 am
Confronted with a progressive deterioration and an increasing “Americanization” of mass media in Britain, the British Labor Party appointed a Commission under the Chairmanship of Lord Reith the assign...
The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications 1 Jul 2013 | 09:12 am
This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by Jo...
St. Brecht and the Theatrical Stock Exchange 1 Jul 2013 | 09:11 am
This is an abridged version of an article by the same title published in Review1, launched in 1965 as Monthly Review’s literary supplement. Eleanor Hakim was the managing editor of Studies on the Left...
Communications in Capitalist Society 1 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
In no field do the claims of democratic diversity and free political competition which are made on behalf of the “open societies” of advanced capitalism appear to be more valid than in the field of co...
The Existing Alternatives in Communications 1 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
It matters greatly where you start, in thinking about communications. You may start, for instance, in a mood of excitement and even congratulation that at the present stage of civilization there is a ...
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism 1 Jul 2013 | 09:08 am
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy was initially written thirty years ago this coming year as my doctoral dissertation at York University in Toronto. It was...
Monthly Review Volume 65, Number 2 (June 2013) 1 Jun 2013 | 09:15 am
» Notes from the Editors buy this issue The U.S. working class was slow to respond to the hard times it faced during and after the Great Recession. Finally, however, in February 2011, workers in Wis...
The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement 1 Jun 2013 | 09:14 am
For nine days in September, Chicago belonged to the teachers, school paraprofessionals, and clinicians. On September 10, 2012, 26,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) went on strike. It was...
