Showing papers in "Monthly Review in 1966"
TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations, and that most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands.
Abstract: We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this reason most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: The following paper was contributed by its authors to a volume celebrating the 65th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished Polish economist Michal Kalecki: Problems of Economic Dynamics and Planning as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The following paper was contributed by its authors to a volume celebrating the 65th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished Polish economist Michal Kalecki: Problems of Economic Dynamics and Planning: Essays in Honour of Michal Kalecki, PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers), Warsaw, 1964. It is reprinted here by permission. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: In the United States, by 1970, Afro-Americans constituted one third or more of the population in 50 of the 50 largest cities and one fourth of the total population.
Abstract: Population experts predict that by 1970 Afro-Americans will constitute the majority in 50 of the nation's largest cities. In Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J., Afro-Americans are already a majority. In Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, and St. Louis they are one third or more of the population and in a number of others, e.g., Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Oakland, they constitute well over one fourth. There are more Afro-Americans in New York City than in the entire state of Mississippi. Even where they are not yet a majority, as in Detroit, their school children are now well over 50 percent of the school population.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: A poem by Pablo Neruda can also be found at the Monthly Review website as mentioned in this paper, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the monthly review website.
Abstract: A poem by Pablo NerudaThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: Genovese as mentioned in this paper reviewed The Political Economy of Slavery by Eugene D. Genovese and found it to be a good introduction to the history of the modern African slave trade.
Abstract: Review of The Political Economy of Slavery by Eugene D. Genovese.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: Jeffers as discussed by the authors described the experience of trading with China as "a vastly different experience not only from the old days but from trading anywhere else in the world." The article below describes that experience. But dealing with China today is very different from the pre-1949 times when compradors, middlemen and graft were indispensable to business.
Abstract: M.A. Jeffers is a British businessman who visits China twice every year. He writes: "Britain has been trading with China without interruption for more than 150 years but dealing with China today is very different from the pre-1949 times when compradors, middlemen, and graft were indispensable to business. It is a vastly different experience not only from the old days but from trading anywhere else in the world." The article below describes that experience. —The Editors This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: Three interrelated views on economic imperialism and United States foreign policy prevail today: (1) economic imperialism is not at the root of United States Foreign Policy; (2) political aims and national security are the prime motivators of foreign policy; and (3) Economic imperialism cannot be the main element in foreign policy determination, since United Statesforeign trade and foreign investment make such relatively small contributions to the nation's overall economic performance.
Abstract: Three interrelated views on economic imperialism and United States foreign policy prevail today: (1) Economic imperialism is not at the root of United States foreign policy. Instead, political aims and national security are the prime motivators of foreign policy. (2) Economic imperialism cannot be the main element in foreign policy determination, since United States foreign trade and foreign investment make such relatively small contributions to the nation's overall economic performance.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: The experience of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam) in building socialism in the 10-year period since the Geneva Agreements is virtually unknown to the West as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The experience of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam) in building socialism in the 10-year period since the Geneva Agreements is virtually unknown to the West. A recent study trip to Hanoi has led me to believe that this experience is of considerable interest and that the lessons to be learned are of value to those living far beyond the borders of this half-country. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: The present discussion of new methods of planning and management in socialist countries which has been carried on in the pages of MR and elsewhere, again demonstrates the fact that economics is among the most primitive of sciences as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The present discussion of new methods of planning and management in socialist countries which has been carried on in the pages of MR and elsewhere, again demonstrates the fact that economics is among the most primitive of sciences. We have not even taken the first step in establishing a science—the agreed definition and consistent use of terms. The resulting rampant confusion would be of little moment if it were confined to political economists or if it were just a question of semantics. But the fact is that these problems are political and social as well as economic. The effects of our confusions extend far beyond our ranks and end in international repercussions not only between capitalist and socialist countries, but also among the socialist countries. We cannot understand what is meant by the "new systems of planning and management" unless we first discuss this problem of language.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: The City is the Black Man's Land (CBMPL) article as discussed by the authors was published in the April, 1966 issue of the Monthly Review, and it raised many intriguing ideas for action, most of them quite correct.
Abstract: You have called for reader reactions to the article "The City is the Black Man's Land" by Grace and James Boggs in the April, 1966, issue. Herewith my comments. First let me say that the Boggses' article is stimulating and raises many intriguing ideas for action—most of them, in my opinion, quite correct. I subscribe to the program of asserting the right of black majorities to run the local governments for which they pay and under whose police power they must live. What doesn't check out, in my opinion, is the assertion that this program, if a serious attempt be made to carry it out, is revolutionary.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: In all the recent reporting and comment on the Rhodesian crisis, there has been one glaring omission: an explanation of what it is really all about as mentioned in this paper, and why the white Rhodesian minority insisted on its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) at this time.
Abstract: In all the spate of press reporting and comment on the Rhodesian crisis there has been one glaring omission: an explanation of what it is really all about. Why has the white Rhodesian minority insisted on its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) at this time? As Richard Morrock's survey of the historical background of the crisis (beginning on page 10 below) makes clear, Britain has always been the aider and abettor of white rule and exploitation in Rhodesia, and to its everlasting shame the Labor government has in no way changed this and has not even expressed any intent to change it. Moreover, the British have been willing all along to grant independence on the basis of the white supremacist Constitution of 1961 (which is what the Smith government was demanding), attaching only such mild conditions relating to the future of the African people (95 percent of the population) as to raise the suspicion that the whole conflict between London and Salisbury is a phony staged by the British merely to hoodwink the independent African countries and the non-white members of the British Commonwealth. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: A review of Studies in a Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon can also be found at the Monthly Review website as mentioned in this paper, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the monthly review website.
Abstract: Review of Studies in a Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: Fidel Castro furiously attacked a guerrilla movement that is struggling, arms in hand, in the mountains and streets of Guatemala, for the socialist revolution at the Tricontinental Conference of Havana as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Those present at the final session of the Tricontinental Conference of Havana were witnesses to an extraordinary spectacle: Fidel Castro furiously attacking a guerrilla movement that is struggling, arms in hand, in the mountains and streets of Guatemala, for the socialist revolution. The attack was made at the end of the Conference, when there was no possibility for discussion or rebuttal, and took by surprise those delegates not belonging to the Communist Parties.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: In the past, we have published in every May issue the statement "Where We Stand" which appeared in Volume 1, Number 1, and we may well publish it from time to time in years ahead as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: With this issue Monthly Review begins its eighteenth year of publication. In the past we have published in every May issue the statement "Where We Stand" which appeared in Volume 1, Number 1, and we may well publish it from time to time in years ahead. This year, however, we have decided to commemorate the occasion in another way. When Leo Huberman was in Paris recently he was interviewed by the magazine Partisans on MR's views and achievements, and it seems appropriate that the interview be published in MR as well as in Partisans. In addition we are publishing a tribute to MR sent us by a young friend who for the time being is obliged to use a pen name. His generosity to the editors is exaggerated, as is customary on such occasions as anniversaries. But his assessment of what we have tried to do and the point of view from which we have tried to do it is accurate and informative. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: In this article, the text of an interview which our London representative, MR Press Associate Editor Frances Kelly, had with Isaac Deutscher on April 20th, on the subject of the recent Twenty-third Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was published.
Abstract: We are privileged to publish in this space the text of an interview which our London representative, MR Press Associate Editor Frances Kelly, had with Isaac Deutscher on April 20th, on the subject of the recent Twenty-third Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Mr. Deutscher, the well-known authority on Soviet history and society, is the author of biographies of Stalin and Trotsky. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: A poem by E.Y. Harburg as discussed by the authors can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the monthly review website.
Abstract: A poem by E.Y. Harburg This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: For example, at the April March on Washington, Paul Potter, then President of Students for a Democratic Society, stood in approximately this spot and said that we must name the system that creates and sustains the war in Vietnam, name it, describe it, analyze it, understand it and change it.
Abstract: Seven months ago at the April March on Washington, Paul Potter, then President of Students for a Democratic Society, stood in approximately this spot and said that we must name the system that creates and sustains the war in Vietnam—name it, describe it, analyze it, understand it, and change it.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: Morris as mentioned in this paper reviewed The Road to Spain by Ira Morris and found that it was one of the best travel books of all time, and recommended it to all readers.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
Abstract: Review of The Road to Spain by Ira Morris.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: It has come to public attention, but without creating a significant response, that Brazilian rubber-tappers in the Amazon basin have been systematically killing Indians in order to clear the rubber-growing lands of human encumbrances.
Abstract: It has come to public attention, but without creating a significant response, that Brazilian rubber-tappers in the Amazon basin have been systematically killing Indians in order to clear the rubber-growing lands of human encumbrances. Since the murders are committed by men who are themselves most cruelly exploited, the significance of their crimes can only be understood within the context of the Brazilian rubber industry—whose brief and turbulent history, marked by a chronic depression after a series of booms and busts, represents a classic example of predatory colonialism. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: The April issue of the Monthly Review as mentioned in this paper contains parts of Fidel Castro's closing speech at the Tricontinental, an article by Adolfo Gilly on the Trición, and an editorial commentary, which evoked a more passionate response among readers than any issue we can remember in the magazine's seventeen-year history.
Abstract: The April issue of Monthly Review containing parts of Fidel Castro's closing speech at the Tricontinental, an article by Adolfo Gilly on the Tricontinental, and an editorial commentary, has evoked a more passionate response among readers than any issue we can remember in the magazine's seventeen-year-old history. In June we published some severely critical letters and a translation of a communication which first appeared in the Uruguayan weekly Marcha pointing out serious inaccuracies in Gilly's article. Since then we have had a steady stream of communications, written and verbal, favorable and unfavorable. It seems clear that the time has come, first, to clear up some misunderstandings; and second, to attempt to focus attention and discussion on the real issues raised in and by the April MR.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: One evening I went out to buy pretzels and there was a youngish man in the store, talking with the proprietor, not buying, not selling, but bragging of his skill as a salesman.
Abstract: One evening I went out to buy pretzels; the big ones that come in big cans. There was a youngish man in the store, talking with the proprietor—not buying, not selling, but bragging of his skill as a salesman. He had, he said, sold merchandise to a physician who had not wanted it, and on that sale he had made $27. "You have to keep the brain working," he said. Not your brain or my brain but the brain.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: In the October, 1965 issue of the Monthly Review, the editorial article, "Decolonization at Home," provided a very clear analysis of the brief Los Angeles rising and its brutal suppression by police and National Guard.
Abstract: In the October, 1965, issue of Monthly Review the editorial article, "Decolonization at Home," provided a very clear analysis of the brief Los Angeles rising and its brutal suppression by police and National Guard. This was no isolated occurrence in the development of the struggle of the Afro-American people from a demand for constitutional rights to a challenge to the existing social order. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: A reply to Gilly's criticism of the Tricontinental published in both Mucha and in Monthly Review (April issue) can be found in this paper, where the author is identified in the article itself.
Abstract: The article which follows appeared in the Uruguayan weekly Marcha of April 29th. It is a reply, which seems to us altogether convincing, to Adolfo Gilly's criticism of the Tricontinental published in both Mucha and in Monthly Review (April issue) and presents a view from inside the conference which MR readers are entitled to know about. The author is identified in the article itself. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
TL;DR: In his closing speech to the Tricontinental Conference held in Havana during the first half of January, Fidel Castro launched a fierce attack on the Guatemalan guerrilla movement, "MR-13," led by Antonio Yon Sosa and on the Argentine journalist Adolfo Gilly who has probably done more than anyone else to acquaint the world with the character and achievements of MR-13.
Abstract: In his closing speech to the Tricontinental Conference held in Havana during the first half of January, Fidel Castro launched a fierce attack on the Guatemalan guerrilla movement, "MR-13," led by Antonio Yon Sosa and on the Argentine journalist Adolfo Gilly who has probably done more than anyone else to acquaint the world with the character and achievements of MR-13. Since Gilly's most comprehensive reportage on the Guatemalan guerrillas appeared in this magazine (in the issues of April and May of last year), and since Gilly is also a frequent and valued contributor to Monthly Review, we are devoting a large part of this issue to printing the relevant part of Castro's speech and Gilly's reply, the latter taking the form of a general critique of the Conference itself. In this editorial we attempt to clarify MR's position on some of the principal issues in this politically very important controversy.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.