December 1996 Issue, THE MONTHLY REVIEW

- Cuba
  Grace Lee Boggs
  , pp. 1-5
  Love and Self-Reliance
- The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives
  Gregory Albo
  , pp. 6-22
- In Defense of Utopia
  Morris Zeitlin
  , pp. 23-28
- Democracy and Human Rights
  Li Xing
  , pp. 29-40
  China and the West
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  Challenging the Bourgeois Paradigm (Review)
  Colin Barker
  , pp. 41-47
  The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, by Ellen Meiksins Wood
  1. The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
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  From Marx to Gramsci (Review)
  Michael Lowy
  , pp. 48-50
  From Marx to Gramsci, A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics, by Paul Le Blanc
  1. From Marx to Gramsci, A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics by Paul Le Blanc
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  Nice Work, But You Can't Get It (2 Reviews)
  Michael Yates
  , pp. 51-56
  Just a Temp, by Kevin D. Henson
  1. Just a Temp by Kevin D. Henson
  2. Half a Job by Chris Tilly
- A Socialist Movement?
  R.F. Price
  , pp. 57-58
- Public Radio
  Andrew Jay Tierman
  , pp. 59-66