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Article: Monthly Review in historical perspective. (Marxist analysis of the 20th century)
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- January 1, 1994
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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 haft century?
First, I think it is crucial to understand that all of the most significant developments had their origins in the first half, one of the most eventful periods in human history. It included: two world wars (1914-1918 and 1941-1945), global economic collapse in the Great Depression of the 1930s, and history's two greatest revolutions (Russia 1917, China 1949, dated by the years in which the ...