In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda

Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, was an editor of the New Left Review from 1984 to 1992, and, Co-editor of Monthly Review from 1997 to 2000. She is the author of numerous books, including The Retreat from Class (Verso, 1988; reissued in 1998 as a Verso Classic, with a new introduction by the author), which was the Deutsher Prize; The Pristime Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (Verso 1992); Democracy Against Capitalism; Renewing Historical Materialism (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Verso, 2002), as well as several others on the history of Western political though and ancient Greek democracy. Her work has been translated into many languages, European and non European.

John Bellamy Foster teachers sociology at the University of Oregon and is a member of the board of directors of Monthly Review Foundation. He is the author of the board of directors of Monthly review Foundation. He is the author of The Theory of Monopoly Capital (1986) and The Vulnerable Planter (1994), both published by Monthly review Press