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Marx in heaven = Monthly Review library

LYRICS: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) pamphlet, "100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A.", 1948. Phrases such as "Have you now, or have you ever been (to a) Communist Party?", "the black-list is the guest-list", and "they come early, and they stay late," are taken directly from the text of the Red Scare pamphlet, which you can read in full, here: https://archive.org/details/100thingsyoushou1949unit/page/n3/mode/2up MUSIC: Molly Nilsson, mixed with Marxist Love Disco Ensemble IMAGE: Slovenian political poster circa 1980 (courtesy of a beloved former Monthly Review employee) VIDEO: Jordan T. Caylor: https://jordantcaylor.com/ BOOKS: 'Einstein’s "Why Socialism?"' Che Guevara, 'Guerilla Warfare' Aimé Césaire, 'Discourse on Colonialism' Eduardo Galeano, 'Open Veins of Latin America' Kwame Nkrumah, 'Consciencism' Amilcar Cabral, 'Return to the Source' James Boggs, 'Racism and the Class Struggle' Harry Braverman, 'Labor and Monopoly Capital' Samir Amin, 'Eurocentrism' Johanna Brenner, 'Women and the Politics of Class' José Martí, 'On Education' EZLN/Subcommandante Marcos, 'Shadows of Tender Fury' I.F. Stone, 'The Hidden History of the Korean War' Daniel Guerin, 'Anarchism' Rafael Barrett, 'Paraguayan Sorrow' Cornel West, 'The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought' Nikolai Bukharin, 'Philosophical Arabesques' Stefan Heym, 'Radek' Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, 'The Age of Monopoly Capital' Al Sandine, 'The Taming of the American Crowd' Ann Barr Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, 'Desire: The Politics of Sexuality' Esteban Morales Domínguez (with editing and contributions by Gary Prevost and August Nimtz), 'Race in Cuba' Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, 'Capitalism and the Global Information Age' John Bellamy Foster, 'The Return of Nature'; 'Marx’s Ecology' Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, 'The Politics of Immigration' General Võ Nguyên Giáp, 'The Military Art of People’s War' Gerald Horne, 'The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism'; 'Jazz and Justice' 'The Political Writings of Baghat Singh' (edited by Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates) 'Anne Braden Speaks' (edited by Ben Wilkins) 'José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology' (edited by Harry E. E. Vanden Vanden and Marc Becker Becker) Ursula Huws, 'The Making of a Cybertariat' BACKGROUND: MONTHLY REVIEW Monthly Review is an educational publisher, featuring a small and selected, but influential school of scholarly analysis which fills a demonstrable gap in the arena of socialist scholarship. Monthly Review Magazine and Monthly Review Press have been leading publishers of left scholarship since 1949. The first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949) featured Einstein's classic essay, "Why Socialism?" (now available as a book.) Other seminal works include "Discourse on Colonialism," "Eurocentrism," "Open Veins of Latin America," among many others. Our mission since the start has been to offer readers a responsible platform for neglected and emerging scholarship grounded in critical analyses of capitalism, on a wide range of progressive issues. Monthly Review’s distinctive contribution to the world of ideas has advanced an analysis that helps to explain the tendency of contemporary capitalism toward slow growth and stagnation, the growing environmental catastrophe, the continuing and deepening economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and between the rich and poor everywhere.

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