Monthly Review Press is the book publishing wing of the socialist magazine Monthly Review. In 1952, a few years after the magazine’s founding in New York City, the Press published its first title, I. F. Stone’s Hidden History of the Korean War. In the decades since, we have released books that express a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization.
Among our authors have been:
- major scholars of racism, colonialism, and imperialism, such as Samir Amin, James Boggs, Aimé Césaire, Oliver Cromwell Cox, W. E. B. Du Bois, Arghiri Emmanuel, Eduardo Galeano, Mahmood Mamdani, Kwame Nkrumah, Prabhat Patnaik, Utsa Patnaik, Vijay Prashad, John Smith, Intan Suwandi, and Walter Rodney;
- leading political economists, including Paul A. Baran, Harry Braverman, Andre Gunder Frank, Ursula Huws, Michal Kalecki, Harry Magdoff, Ernest Mandel, Michael Perelman, Paul Sweezy, Immanuel M. Wallerstein, and Michael Yates;
- feminist analysts Johanna Brenner and Gita Sen;
- Marxist theorists and commentators Nikolai Bukharin, Hal Draper, John Bellamy Foster, Michael Heinrich, Karl Korsch, Domenico Losurdo, Rosa Luxemburg, José Carlos Mariátegui, István Mészáros, and Ellen Meiksins Wood;
- philosophers Louis Althusser and Michael Löwy;
- scholars of ecology Ian Angus, Brett Clark, Fred Magdoff, and Kohei Saito;
- radical historians Gerald Horne, Hans Koning, and E. P. Thompson;
- the anthropologist Eleanor Burke Leacock and biologists Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin;
- journalists Daniel Singer and I. F. Stone, and the media and communication scholar Robert W. McChesney;
- activists and revolutionary leaders such as Anne Braden, Amilcar Cabral, Esther Farmer, Che Guevara, William Hinton, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Helena Sheehan, Sarah Sills, and Mao Tse-Tung;
- and Albert Einstein.
Today, we are known internationally for our pioneering analyses of political economy, imperialism, ecosocialism, and struggles in the global South, drawing on the rich legacy of Marxist thought without being bound to any narrow view.