Description: "First published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Albert Einstein's "Why Socialism?" is an unheralded classic. Written during the McCarthyite witch-hunt in the United States, it constituted an act of defiance, making a case for socialism unrivaled in its time or ours. Since then it has reached untold numbers of readers. Yet its very existence has been an embarrassment to an establishment that has continually sought to downplay the significance of his iconoclastic essay, together with Einstein's socialism itself."--Page [4] of cover.
Brief description: John Bellamy Foster is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.