[Marxism] Paul Sweezy

["George Snedeker" <snedeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Sweezy's writings were of course very important to the formation of a left 
intellectual culture in the U.S. but keeping Monthly Review in print for 65 
years was equally important. just think of all of the articles and M.R. books 
we have all read over the years. there was a time when M.R. Books was the only 
real publisher of scholarly left books, except for Party publications. we can 
be thankful that now there are other publishers who are able to stay in 
business by publishing radical political, economic and social analyses of local 
and global issues. even main stream publishers now days have to publish books 
that they wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll 25 years ago. 

NEW STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF U.S. COMMUNISM, a book I co edited 
with Mike Brown, Randy Martin and Frank Rosengarten was published by M.R. in 
1993. I doubt if another publisher would have seen a big enough market to 
invest in this book. the book has sold steadily over the years, but I doubt if 
it made M.R. any money. nevertheless, they have kept it in print. 

George Snedeker
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