Leo Huberman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 349111 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leo Huberman |
| PRENOMES | Leo |
| SOBRENOME | Huberman |
| ASSINATURA | HUBERMAN L |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 277 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 277 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1921 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Cuba and the United States
This exchange appeared in the September 1961 issue of Monthly Review. The questions were submitted, in writing, to Comandante Guevara by Leo Huberman during the week of the Bay of Pigs invasion; the answers were received at the end of June
História Da Riqueza Do Homem
The Debs Way
This reprise of "The Debs Way"—the text of an address Huberman delivered at the Debs Centennial Meeting held at the Fraternal Clubhouse in New York City on November 28, 1955—not only reminds us of the importance of Eugene Debs to the history of socialism in the United States, but also brings out some of the core beliefs of Huberman's own approach to socialism. Today's conditions are of course vastly different from when Huberman wrote this, more t…
Latin America and Underdevelopment
On NBC Television News, last Friday night, pictures were shown of American refugees who had fled from Panama following the rioting there. One woman, relating the frightening experience of her husband, said: "His car was overturned, rocks were thrown at him, and he barely made it into the Canal Zone."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 o…
The Shanghai Textbook
Review of Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook.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
How to Spread the Word
This article is a reprint from the December 1967 issue of Monthly Review. It is dedicated to the revival of the U.S. labor movement after nearly three decades of retreat and inactivity. Leo Huberman was one of the founders of Monthly Review, and a devoted proponent and practitioner of labor education. - The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase …
Why Socialism Is Necessary
There are some nations in the world which are poverty-stricken because they lack natural resources. But that is not true of the Latin American countries. They have an abundance of the resources necessary to make a country rich. No continent in the world compares with Latin America in the amount of cultivable high-yield soil, or in reserves of timber. List the metals important to industrial development—copper, tin, iron, silver, gold, zinc, lead—a…
Introducción al socialismo
Letters from Prison
A note from the Editors: We would like to welcome here a new constituency among the readers of Monthly Review and MR Press books—the readers behind bars—and to acquaint other readers with them. In the March 1970 issue we offered free subs and books at half-price to prisoners. A month later we wrote that the response had been "a good deal larger than we originally anticipated" and we appealed to readers for donations. At the same time we began to …
Crisis in Canada
The situation in Canada and Quebec has reached the proportions of a major social and political crisis. Not since the Winnipeg general strike in 1919 and the passage of Section 98 have the civil liberties of Canadians been so jeopardized and the very organizational existence of the left wing been challenged. Last Friday the Liberal government of Prime Minister Trudeau passed the War Measures Act, declaring that there exists in Quebec "a state of a…
Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution
Why Socialism Is Necessary
This is the text of a talk by Leo Huberman at a Conference on Latin America held at the University of Nijmegen, Holland, on November 6th, two days before his death. The Conference was held under the auspices of the Nijmegen Student Union which is generally regarded as the vanguard of the Dutch radical student movement. More than 500 students gave Leo Huberman's talk an extremely enthusiastic reception. -P.M.S.This article can also be found at the…
The Prospects of Peace, Foreign and Domestic
More than two years ago we predicted in this space that "the number one casualty of the Vietnamese war is going to be Lyndon B. Johnson." (MR, March 1966, p. 10). This has now been confirmed, sooner than we expected, by none other than Mr. Johnson himself. With his Gallup poll rating at its lowest point since he became President, unable (in the words of James Reston) to "venture openly into any of the great cities of the United States without the…
The Fall of McNamara
Why was McNamara kicked downstairs to the presidency of the World Bank? And what does it mean? There is little doubt about the answer to the first question: McNamara was having increasing doubts about the war in Vietnam.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
Debray
To understand the full significance of Regis Debray's Revolution in the Revolution?, one must recall facts which may have become dim in the memories of older radicals and have never been experienced, and perhaps never even read about, by younger ones.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
Gold, Dollars, and Empire
People had been saying for a long time that the pound would have to be devalued, and on November 18th it happened. Britain, presumably under heavy United States pressure, had used up much of its gold and foreign exchange reserves and had gone deep into debt trying to keep the pound at $2.80. But it was all in vain. Persistent balance-of-payments deficits plus inept and ineffective governmental policies convinced international capital that the pou…
Assessments by Other Readers
Professor Albert Einstein in his article "Why Socialism?" Vol. 1, No.1: "Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition. Since, under present circumstances, free and unhindered discussion of these problems has come under a powerful taboo, I consider the founding of this magazine to be an important public service."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent …
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
After lengthy discussion of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, we each drafted a statement for publication in his space. The two statements turned out to be so different in their focus and emphasis that we decided to publish both instead of trying to combine them into one. —The EditorsThis 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 …
Aspects of Prosperity
LBJ, in the President's Message, January 17, 1968: "Americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history. Yet, there is in the land a certain restlessness, a questioning..." The New York Times Magazine, January 7, 1968: "Along with its dinner parties and lawn parties, the Palm Beach pet set recently attended a fashionable wedding of its own when two well-connected toy poodles were joined in matrimony at the Poodle Boutique. Miss Pe…
Turning Point in Vietnam
Official United States spokesmen in Washington and Saigon, aided and abetted as usual by the news media, are attempting to put two principal but by no means mutually exclusive interpretations on the most recent developments in South Vietnam. First, they claim that the general uprising in all the main cities and towns of the country is a last desperate fling of the Vietcong which either already has been or very soon will be militarily crushed. And…
Reform and Revolution
The most difficult problem of revolutionary movements is to reconcile the needs and demands of the oppressed for immediate improvements with the necessity of radically transforming the whole system in order to do away with their oppression—in other words, how to reconcile reform with revolution.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 thi…
Reflections on the French Upheaval
The contention of the French Communist Party and its sympathizers abroad that no revolutionary situation existed in France in May reminds us of the story of the boy who shot his father and mother and then pleaded with the judge for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan.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 Month…
The Black and the Red
We write shortly after the Detroit upnsmg of late July and with little information about that or other recent uprisings beyond what has appeared in the bourgeois press. The following observations are therefore subject to amendment and/or correction.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
The Latin American Revolution
The Latin American Revolution is entering a new and, historically speaking, crucial phase. We have not reached this conclusion suddenly or without much pondering of the accumulating evidence. By now, however, we believe that the picture is clear enough to permit a sketching out of the main contours and of the likely directions of change in the period ahead.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles ar…
Notes on the Centennial of Das Kapital
One hundred years ago—to be exact, in September of 1867—the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published in Hamburg, Germany. The event marked a turning point not only in the history of political economy but in the entire scientific-intellectual development of the modem world. The very embodiment of materialist dialectics, Das Kapital presented an indictment of the present and a vision of the future of unprecedented power and passion. Th…
Latin America and Underdevelopment
On NBC Television News, last Friday night, pictures were shown of American refugees who had fled from Panama following the rioting there. One woman, relating the frightening experience of her husband, said: "His car was overturned, rocks were thrown at him, and he barely made it into the Canal Zone."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 o…
Why Socialism Is Necessary
This is the text of a talk by Leo Huberman at a Conference on Latin America held at the University of Nijmegen, Holland, on November 6th, two days before his death. The Conference was held under the auspices of the Nijmegen Student Union which is generally regarded as the vanguard of the Dutch radical student movement. More than 500 students gave Leo Huberman's talk an extremely enthusiastic reception. -P.M.S.This article can also be found at the…
Debray
To understand the full significance of Regis Debray's Revolution in the Revolution?, one must recall facts which may have become dim in the memories of older radicals and have never been experienced, and perhaps never even read about, by younger ones.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
Paul Alexander Baran
Monthly Review was founded in 1949 at just about the time that Paul Baran was resigning from a semi-governmental job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join the faculty of Stanford University. In his new situation he had more freedom, more time, and more energy to devote to outside matters. Being a Marxist whose political views were basically the same as ours, he was naturally interested in MR and as time went on became more and more clos…
Artists and concert life
Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations
This classic text from Leo Huberman, a founder of Monthly Review magazine, links economics and history to create a powerful and exciting portrait of the modern age
The Labor Spy Racket
Sailors in Mufti
The National Maritime Union, in the estimation of both its friends and its enemies, is a militant labor union. Mr. Huberman's article tells the story of how a militant labor union has adapted itself to wartime conditions. The NMU is presented here as a case study in wartime cooperation. What lessons does it hold for the future? Leo Huberman, the author, combines an academic and a labor-union background. Formerly Chairman of the Department of Soci…
Monopoly
One of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people is the ever-repeated assertion that our economic system is one of "free private enterprise." The capitalists and their propagandists on the air and in the press want us to believe that ours is a competitive, free, individualistic economy.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 versi…
From Our Correspondence
Eventually, we hope to have a regular correspondence section in every month's issue of MR, the purpose of which will be to promote the serious and considered exchange of views among readers and between readers and editors. So far, however, we have not been able to see our way clear to establishing this feature. There is almost always more awaiting and deserving publication than the available 32 pages will contain, and we do not feel that it would…
Labor and World Conquest
It's probably safe to say that very few working people in the United States understand the political power of workers in other countries. But the United States government-the visible government of Washington and the invisible hierarchy of bankers, industrialists and generals - understand it rather well.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 versio…
Socialism and American Labor
What has been the relationship between socialism and the American labor movement? What should be? The need for seeing the problem as a whole is apparent today when the gap between what American labor is doing and what it should do-and could do-is perhaps wider than ever before.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 M…
Civil War in the CIO
The first principle of socialism is expressed in the famous concluding sentence of the Communist Manifesto: "Workingmen of all countries, unite!" It was therefore with greatest hope and enthusiasm that socialist-minded trade unionists did all they could to help the CIO launch a new era in American labor history.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a P…
The Soviet Bomb
American foreign policy since the war has been based on two assumptions, one political and one military. The political assumption is that war between this country and the Soviet Union must come sooner or later. The military assumption is that the United States, by the use of atom bombs, will be able to knock the Soviet Union out, while this country remains relatively uninjured by Soviet retaliation.This article can also be found at the Monthly Re…
Academic Freedom in the Colleges
The Education Editor of the New York Times, Benjamin Fine, recently published (May 29 and 30) the results of a broad survey of the status of academic freedom in the United States. The facts reported are sufficiently depressing and alarming. "A record number of academic freedom cases involving college faculty members who charge they were dismissed or denied promotion because of their political activities has arisen during the last year," according…
The Communist Manifesto After 100 Years
The Communist Manifesto, the most famous document in the history of the socialist movement, was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the latter part of 1847 and the first month of 1848. It was published in February 1948. This appreciation of the Manifesto at the end of its first century is thus more than a year late. This is a case, however, in which we hope our readers will agree with us: better late than never.This article can also …
Class Struggle in America
In order to produce and distribute bread, clothes, houses, autos, radios, newspapers, medicines, schools, this, that, and the other thing in the United States in 1949, you have to have two things: 1. Land, mines, raw materials, machines, factories--what economists call the "means of production. 2. Labor-workers who use their strength and skill on and with the means of production to turn out the required goods.This article can also be found at the…
The Atlantic Pact Again; No Cause for Surprise; The Nathan Report and the American Labor Movement
During the war, many, if not most, well-informed Americans knew perfectly well that capitalism had failed in Europe and that a postwar attempt to restore the status quo ante would have no chance of lasting success.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
The Atlantic Pact
Recent weeks have witnessed two developments of world-historical importance: the conclusion of the so-called Atlantic Pact and the opening of the final phase of China's long-drawn-out civil war. The Atlantic Pact is ostensibly aimed to prevent aggression against the signatory powers. This, however, is nonsense which will fool only the naive and the gullible. Despite much alarmist talk about the threat of Soviet aggression, not a shred of supporti…
The Accumulation of Capital
We've all had the experience at some time or other of walking through a department store and being amazed at the many different articles we see there. One counter after another filled with this, that, and the other thing-some useful, some of little or no use. Almost every day a new gadget is advertised, electric blankets, or hats that look like chimneys, or a special kind of vitamin tablets. A common reaction of people as they look in shop window…
The Split in the CIO; Western European Economic Integration; Two Voices; Quiz Program
One week after the Cleveland phase of the civil war in the CIO was ended, a Congressional subcommittee made public a report on "Low-Income Families and Economic Stability." The tragedy of the split in the ranks of labor was underlined in the income figures: More than 8,000,000 families and single individuals in the United States received less than $1000 cash income in 1948. That's less than $20 a week.This article can also be found at the Monthly…
Point Four
The basic problem of the American economy, the problem which increasingly dominates our whole domestic and international policy, is how to get rid of what may be called "the surplus." The size of the surplus in "normal" times may be anywhere from, say, $10 billion to $30 billion. It is surplus in the sense that the mass of working-class and middle-class consumers cannot afford to buy it in the form of finished goods and services, and capitalists …
The Peekskill Riots; In Darkest India
On August 27th Paul Robeson was scheduled to give a concert at Peekskill, New York. Demonstrations and rioting by local veterans' organizations prevented the concert from being held. The following week-end, on September 4th, the story was different. Protected by a strong guard of union workers from New York City and surrounded by hundreds of state and local police, the concert was held virtually without incident. But when the crowd left the conce…
Value and Surplus Value
The division of society into warring classes is not new. The class struggle existed before capitalism - it is as old as written history. Rich and poor, oppressors and oppressed, constantly fighting; that has been the pattern of history. In capitalist society the antagonisms between classes continue, but in place of the old, new classes, new forms of struggle, new conditions of oppression are established.This article can also be found at the Month…
The ECE's European Economic Survey
For the second consecutive year, the Research and Planning Division of the Economic Commission for Europe (a United Nations body) has published a detailed report on the European economic situation. The latest report (Economic Survey of Europe in 1948, International Documents Service, Columbia University Press, $2.50) is of the same high caliber as its predecessor (A Survey of the Economic Situation and Prospects of Europe) and provides a most val…
The Bridges Case; F.O. Matthiessen; Harold J. Laski
On the same day that the newspapers reported the conviction of Harry Bridges, they carried the story of a letter from Philip Murray to the other top leaders of organized labor calling for a program of unity.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.
Foreword to the Commemorative Issue on F. O. Matthiessen
F.O. Matthiessen was a great man-as teacher, as scholar and critic, and as citizen. He was also a socialist-unwaveringly, without any ifs and buts. The combination of qualities made him a unique figure in present-day America. It is fitting that the Left to which he belonged should honor him and that an ever-increasing number of his countrymen should know about him. We hope that this memorial will contribute to these ends.This article can also be …
Economic Retrospect and Prospect
Complete economic returns on 1949 are not in at the time of writing; but judged by data relating to the first three quarters, which are probably a reliable guide to the twelve-month period and which have the merit of avoiding the distortions caused by the long strikes in coal and steel in October, the year as a whole was one of marked recession as compared to 1948, the peak year of the postwar boom.This article can also be found at the Monthly Re…
Sound the Alarm
The Korean war shows that our rulers are leading us along the road to national defeat and disaster. It was a series of blunders by the United States government which set the stage for the war in the first place. On various occasions high-placed officials indicated that the United States did not consider Korea to be a strategically important or defensible area; but at the very same time our government established, and allowed its own prestige to b…
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