Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy was initially written thirty years ago this coming year as my doctoral dissertation at York University in Toronto. It was...
View ArticleThe Existing Alternatives in Communications
It matters greatly where you start, in thinking about communications. You may start, for instance, in a mood of excitement and even congratulation that at the present stage of civilization there is a...
View ArticleCommunications in Capitalist Society
In no field do the claims of democratic diversity and free political competition which are made on behalf of the “open societies” of advanced capitalism appear to be more valid than in the field of...
View ArticleSt. Brecht and the Theatrical Stock Exchange
This is an abridged version of an article by the same title published in Review1, launched in 1965 as Monthly Review’s literary supplement. Eleanor Hakim was the managing editor of Studies on the Left...
View ArticleThe Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by...
View ArticleTheses on Advertising
Confronted with a progressive deterioration and an increasing “Americanization” of mass media in Britain, the British Labor Party appointed a Commission under the Chairmanship of Lord Reith the...
View ArticleThe Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital
The past half-century has been dominated by the rise of media to a commanding position in the social life of most people and nations, to the point where it is banal to regard this as the “information...
View ArticleMonthly Review Volume 65, Number 3 (July-August 2013)
» Notes from the Editorsbuy this issueA Note from Bob McChesney. During my time as coeditor [of MR], communication colleagues would sometimes wonder what I was doing at MR. After all, I was a media...
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