Paul M Sweezy

Datos Biográficos

ID293473
NOMBREPaul M Sweezy
NOMBRESPaul M
APELLIDOSweezy
FIRMASWEEZY P M
AFILIACIONESWilton, N. H.
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS552
TOTAL DE CITAS255
TOTAL COMO AUTOR552
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1934
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H8

  • Freedom and Economics

    Open AccessPaul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2025

    Assume a ship under the command of a mad captain headed for certain shipwreck. What would freedom mean to the people on board?" asked MR cofounder Paul M. Sweezy in this previously unpublished discussion piece. "There can hardly be any doubt about the answer...the essence of freedom for the people on the ship is the ability to control their collective fate

  • The Ecological Crisis of Capitalism and Human Survival

    Open AccessHarry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2024

    In this remarkable reprise reprinted from Monthly Review's October 1992 issue, Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy look ahead to the ecological crisis that has continued to unfold into the twenty-first century. Presaging the critical juncture at which we find ourselves today, they write that "only a change in the in the nature of power structures on a global scale could bring a realistic hope for the long-term continuation of human civilization.... If …

  • Listen to the Ecologists

    Open AccessHarry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2024

    In this reprise from 1992, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy look toward the end of the recession then plaguing the United States, seeing choice looming on the horizon: Will the progressive left attempt to reform capitalism, or replace it entirely? Capital's inexorable thirst for growth beyond natural limits, they write, means we must choose the latter—"if we care about the future of the human species...we had better listen to th…

  • Four Lectures on Marxism

    Paul M Sweezy, Sheng Wang et al.ARTICLEPolitical Economy Quarterly2023

    The paper was based on four lectures of Paul Sweezy delivered at Hosei University in Tokyo in October 1979, covering researches on Marxist methodology, capitalist economic laws and their specific historical manifestations, the central and peripheral structures that strengthen capitalist systemic crises, and the characteristics of proletarian revolution and state socialism. In the first lecture, Sweezy had shared his life experience of teaching an…

  • The Puzzle of Financialization

    Open AccessHarry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2023

    In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: "Isn't there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works

  • The Political Tragedy of Capitalist Rule

    Open AccessHarry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2023

    In this prescient article from 1995, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy show that, through their own profligacy, the ruling classes have lost their capacity for political rule. The way forward, Magdoff and Sweezy write, is an "organized, militant struggle," and with victory necessarily leading to the overthrow of capitalist rule

  • Monthly Review in Historical Perspective

    Open AccessPaul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2022Citada por: 2

    Monthly Review was started in 1949 and is now in its forty-fourth year of publication, so you could say that MR's existence is pretty much coterminous with the second half of the twentieth century. What have been the most important characteristics of this half century

  • End of Cold War Illusions

    Open AccessHarry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2022

    In this reprint of the February 1994 "Notes from the Editors," former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: "The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on

  • O Triunfo Do Capital Financeiro

    Open AccessPaul M SweezyARTICLERevista Novos Rumos2022

    Em tempos anteriores, ninguém nunca sonhou que o capital especulativo, um fenômeno tão antigo quanto o próprio capitalismo, pudesse se desenvolver para dominar uma economia nacional, deixando desprotegido o mundo inteiro. Mas isto ocorreu

  • The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society

    Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2020

    When Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy's Monopoly Capital was published by Monthly Review Press in 1966, two of the chapters originally drafted for the book were left out of the final volume: what was to have been Chapter 9 in the original plan for the book, entitled "Some Theoretical Implications," and what was intended as Chapter 11, "The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Mental Health." In July–August 2012, "Some Theoretical Implica…

  • Oliver Cromwell Cox's Marxism

    Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2020

    Oliver Cromwell Cox insisted on dealing with the crucial issues of his time and on telling the truth as he saw it, regardless of whose toes may have been stepped on or whose sensibilities may have been injured. He has aided in preventing the complete stultification of academic social science and in the long run exercised an immense influence on American life

  • The Deadly Implications of Capital for the Human Habitat

    Open AccessPaul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2018

    In October 1992, MR founding editor Paul M. Sweezy wrote the following brief letter, published here for the first time, to Mészáros in response to an interview with Chris Arthur and Joseph McCarney that had just been published in Radical Philosophy. Sweezy saluted the critical significance of Mészáros’s argument on “the monstrous power of capital,” and the failure of many Marxists to perceive this problem in its full dimensions. He also affirmed …

  • The Communist Manifesto in the Twenty-First Century

    Paul M Sweezy, John Mage et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2018

    The Manifesto's analysis of the capitalist crises that "put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society" remains central to any attempt to predict the events of the coming years.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • Ecology and Revolution

    Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2017

    In the early 1970s, MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy increasingly introduced ecological themes into the magazine, and began to question the viability of unlimited, exponential economic growth in a limited biosphere. Sweezy, in particular, was deeply interested in ecological problems, a topic he began to write on in this period, in essays such as "Cars and Cities"..., and to which he returned on various occasions until the end of his life.…

  • The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society

    Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2013

    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 John Bellamy Foster. The style conforms to that of their book. Part of the original draft chapter, dealing with mental health, was still incomplete at the time of Baran's death in 1964, and consequently has not be included in this published version. Fo…

  • Capitalism and the Fallacy of Crude Underconsumptionism

    Jonathan Penzner, Harry Magdoff et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2013

    The question of "underconsumptionism" is a tangled one—due not only to the commonplace fallacy associated with what is known as "crude underconsumptionism," but also because the term has been used at various times to refer to what Joseph Schumpeter in his History of Economic Analysis called "non-spending" or effective demand theories (the second in a typology of underconsumption theories designated by Schumpeter). Underconsumption in this sense, …

  • Last Letters

    Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2012Citada por: 1

    These "Last Letters" were written by Baran and Sweezy in late February and early March 1964 and concerned "Some Theoretical Implications," a chapter that Baran had drafted in 1962 and that they were then revising for their book Monopoly Capital. The discussion was cut short by Baran's death around two weeks later.... They are published here for the first time.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles…

  • Some Theoretical Implications

    Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2012Citada por: 3

    That all is not well in the realm of bourgeois economic theory is strongly felt by its closest observers. Professor Mason's blunt statement that "the functioning of the corporate system has not to date been adequately explained," could hardly be contradicted by anyone familiar with contemporary economic literature. Its most conspicuous feature is, indeed, this very failure to come to grips with the most important aspects of what, one would think,…

  • On the Laws of Capitalism

    John Bellamy Foster, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2011

    In February 2011, while I was drafting what was to become "Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism," written with Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna (Monthly Review, April 2011), I decided to take a look at Paul Sweezy's copy of the original 1942 edition of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, which I had in my possession. In doing so, I came across a folded, two-page document, "The Laws of Capitalism,…

  • Two Letters on Monopoly Capital Theory

    Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2010

    Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy's voluminous correspondence in the 1950s and early 1960s ranks as one of the crucial exchanges of letters between Marxist political economists in the second half of the twentieth century, and, indeed, in the entire history of Marxist thought.... Only a few letters in their extensive correspondence have been published so far.... We have thus chosen to publish two additional letters here in recognition of the joint centen…

  • Financial Instability

    Harry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2010

    The recession that began in the second quarter of 1981 (the second in two years) dragged on into 1982. Most observers look for some recovery in the second half of the year, but hardly anyone expects it to be vigorous. Meanwhile, all the typical signs of stagnation continue to be in evidence. The official unemployment rate which stood at 7.6 percent in 1981 rose to 9.5 percent by the middle of 1982, and the manufacturing capacity utilization rate …

  • The Guilt of Capitalism

    Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2010

    Review of Who Owns the Sun?: People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy by Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • No Nukes

    Harry Magdoff, Paul M SweezyARTICLEMonthly Review2008

    Considerations of Environmental Protection Criteria for Radioactive Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs, Waste Environmental Standards Program, Washington, D.C. 20460, February 1978.Most government reports make dull reading, and this one is no exception. But it contains a message which needs to be taken in by everyone even minimally concerned about the future of the human race. That message, quite simply, is …

  • Modern capitalism and other essays

    Paul M Sweezy

    Few contributions to the understanding of modern capitalism and its mode of operation and evolution have been more important than those made by Paul Sweezy. The essays in this volume continue and deepen his work of interpretation found in The Theory of Capitalist Development, Monopoly Capital, and The Present as History.

  • The Transition from feudalism to capitalism

    Paul M Sweezy

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