Monthly Review

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Monthly Review
Edition December 1988
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
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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.

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