Monthly Review
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| description | American socialist magazine |
| language | English |
| First edition | May 1949 |
| Frequency of publication | 11 times a year |
| Sold edition | 7,000 copies |
| Web link | monthlyreview.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0027-0520 |
Monthly Review is an American socialist magazine that appears 11 times a year.
Its first edition appeared in May 1949, its founder and editor was Paul Sweezy together with Leo Huberman . In the beginning you could only finance the magazine with the money of a close friend of Sweezy, the literary scholar FO Matthiessen . The lead story of the first issue came from Albert Einstein and featured Why Socialism? overwritten.
In the first year of its publication, the magazine had around 2,500 subscribers. In 1977 the number of subscribers peaked at around 12,000. In the two decades that followed, this number fell rapidly, with 5,000 readers subscribing to the magazine in 1996. By 2003 there was an increase to 7,000.
editor
- 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
Web links
- Monthly Review website
- Why socialism? , Albert Einstein , in the first edition May 1949