https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/56521e68-d045-49aa-a3c3-a88556bab3b8 "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?" As Einstein's birthday in mid-March approaches, he stills inspires us, from beyond the grave, to do much, much better. For "Why Socialism?" see: https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900984/ In defiance of those who would like to, not only re-write history, but erase the future, please help us get this book out to as wide an audience as possible. ALIENATION = ANNIHILATION 'I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind... Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: “Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?” I am sure that as little as a century ago no one would have so lightly made a statement of this kind. It is the statement of a man who has striven in vain to attain an equilibrium within himself and has more or less lost hope of succeeding. It is the expression of a painful solitude and isolation from which so many people are suffering in these days. ...Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life.' -Einstein, as quoted in, "Albert Einstein's 'Why Socialism?'", Monthly Review Press, 1949/2025 (We asked several actors to read aloud an excerpt of Einstein's well-known article “Why Socialism?”, in honor of his birthday on March 13. This one was read by: Quince Marcum For more, watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoaOe3op9zk&list=PLG3O6UFukFTHgl-5o-Erzsj6hR59a6DSw&index=3) BACKGROUND: Monthly Review is an educational publisher, featuring a small and selected, but influential school of scholarly analysis which fills a demonstrable gap in the arena of socialist scholarship. Monthly Review Magazine and Monthly Review Press have been leading publishers of left scholarship since 1949. The first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949) featured Einstein's classic essay, "Why Socialism?" (now available as a book.) Other seminal works include "Discourse on Colonialism," "Eurocentrism," "Open Veins of Latin America," among others. Our mission since the start has been to offer readers a responsible platform for neglected and emerging scholarship grounded in critical analyses of capitalism, on a wide range of progressive issues. Monthly Review’s distinctive contribution to the world of ideas has advanced an analysis that helps to explain the tendency of contemporary capitalism toward slow growth and stagnation, the growing environmental catastrophe, the continuing and deepening economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and between the rich and poor everywhere. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:13:17 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://videos.domainepublic.net https://videos.domainepublic.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/56521e68-d045-49aa-a3c3-a88556bab3b8 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://videos.domainepublic.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.