Monthly Review

Monthly Review is an American socialist magazine, which appears 11 times a year.

Your first issue appeared in May 1949, its founder and editor was Paul Sweezy together with Leo Huberman. You could have the magazine at the beginning only with the money of a close friend of Sweezy, the literary scholar FO Matthiessen, finance. The lead story of the first edition came from Albert Einstein and was titled Why Socialism? .

In the first year of their publication, the magazine had approximately 2,500 subscribers. In 1977 the number of subscribers reached its peak with about 12,000. In the two following decades, this number fell rapidly, the magazine was subscribed in 1996 by 5,000 readers. By the year 2003 there was again an increase on 7000.

Publisher

  • Paul Sweezy, from 1949 until his death in 2004
  • Leo Huberman from 1949 until his death in 1968
  • Harry Magdoff from 1969 until his death in 2006
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1997-2000
  • Robert W. McChesney, 2000-2004
  • John Bellamy Foster, since May 2000
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