Fn. in the Christopher Phelps review of MR's history.
>....The Communist Party, however, attacked Monthly Review in several
articles, the first of which declared Sweezy and Huberman "un-Marxist
and anti-Marxist." Alexander Bittelman, "Where is the 'Monthly Review'
Going?" Political Affairs 30 (May 1951): 34-53; "The Ideological
Struggle on the American Left," editorial, Political Affairs 42
(August 1963): 1-18; and Hyman Lumer, "Monopoly Capital: The
Baran-Sweezy Model," Political Affairs 46 (February 1967): 11-25. See
also Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, "Reply to Mr. Bittelman," and Paul
Sweezy, "Certain Aspects of American Capitalism," Monthly Review 3
(November 1951): 212-227. For indication of the editors' views about
the left in 1949, see Paul Sweezy, interview by Aleine Austin, 19
January 1982, Oral History of the American Left.
Much more on MR, including Baran, see, "Radical Paradoxes: Dilemmas of the American Left, 1945-1970, " by Peter Clecak, Harper and Row, 1973. -- Michael Pugliese