January 2021 (Volume 72, Number 8)
We are extremely pleased to announce that John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, has won the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2020 for his The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. | more…
The Contagion of Capital
Financialized Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Great Divide
Although the current crisis of production associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened disparities, the overall problem is much longer and more deep-seated, a manifestation of the inner contradictions of monopoly-finance capital. Comprehending the basic parameters of today’s financialized capitalist system is the key to understanding the contemporary contagion of capital, a corrupting and corrosive cash nexus that is spreading to all corners of the U.S. economy, the globe, and every aspect of human existence. | more…
The Continuing Korean War in the Murderous History of Bombing
The Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, can be considered the epicenter of bombing as an instrument of war. For one, it was the first—and, so far, the last—time since 1945 that the United States seriously considered using atomic weapons during the course of an imperial war. It was the first war that the United States did not win. It ended in a stalemate—an armistice—that continues until today. Kinetic fighting was suspended, but the war continues (though only by one side) by what is conveniently but simplistically called sanctions. | more…
Disability and Welfare under Monopoly Capitalism
A historical-materialist analysis of the relationship between disability, the body, welfare, and capitalism is needed in order to further develop a Marxist understanding of disability. In this framework, we can see how the British welfare state, given recent changes to British disability policy, determines who is able-bodied and who is disabled, with this evaluation made in regard to the needs of monopoly capitalism. | more…
A Portrait of Gil Green
Gil Green was a revolutionary who became J. Edgar Hoover’s “most wanted man in America” until voluntarily surrendering to authorities in February 1956. He lived a life of integrity and courage. | more…
Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative
Ruth Milkman’s latest book is a strong scholarly response to the “immigrant threat” narrative that has been central to U.S. politics in the last decades. In Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat, the distinguished labor and migration scholar has a clear goal: to reframe the conversation about migration and increased inequality in the United States, reversing the causal relation that blames migration for the U.S. working class’s current perils. | more…
Standing with Standing Rock, Then and Now
The story of the Indigenous movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017 has been the subject of numerous articles and documentaries, many of which depict it mainly as an environmental and climate justice campaign to stop the pipeline from crossing the Mni Sose (Missouri River), just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon’s edited collection Standing with Standing Rock tells a richer and more complex story of decolonization and indigenization from the frontlines. | more…
The great denial
A new poem by Marge Piercy. | more…
December 2020 (Volume 72, Number 7)
The United States is now in a New Cold War with Russia and China, with the focus increasingly on the latter and involving a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony over the world economy. | more…
The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology
In an interview with Alejandro Pedregal, John Bellamy Foster tells us about the paths great ecosocialist thinkers traveled, the most prominent debates in current Marxist ecological thought, and the urgent need for a project that transcends the conditions that threaten the existence of our planet today. | more…
The Elephant in the Room
Left Parties and the European Union
European left parties have, over the last couple of decades, become increasingly critical of political developments in the European Union, particularly as a response to the austerity policies that followed the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the subsequent euro crisis. These were accompanied by high and sustained unemployment and promises of a social pillar that never materialized. Nevertheless, even if criticism of the European Union has sharpened, this has not been well reflected in the political strategies of the left. | more…
Popular
- Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
- Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? by Joseph Ball
- Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene by John Bellamy Foster
- Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism by Charisse Burden-Stelly
- China 2020: An Introduction by John Bellamy Foster
- Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 by Rob Wallace
- The Contagion of Capital by John Bellamy Foster
- Capitalism and Mental Health by David Matthews
- Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary by Heather Brown
- October 2020 (Volume 72, Number 5) by The Editors
MR Online
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- ‘We’re witnessing a fundamental political realignment’: Mike Davis on the crisis in the United States January 27, 2021 Ben Hillier
- China cherishes Hanoi’s nay to ‘Quad’ January 27, 2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar
- THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf January 27, 2021 Eds.
- Kerala communists serve the people, look to youth and women January 27, 2021 W. T. Whitney, Jr.
- Four crises, one crisis (or the health of the people) January 26, 2021 Elliot Sperber
- To the Inaugural Poet January 26, 2021 Eds.
- Echoes and elections January 26, 2021 Victor Grossman
- The “humanitarian” left still ignores the lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to cheer on more war January 26, 2021 Jonathan Cook
- Blood and Money January 26, 2021 David McNally
Climate & Capitalism
- ‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’ January 26, 2021
- Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge January 24, 2021
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021 January 20, 2021
- Bidenfreude: Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S. January 16, 2021
- Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020 January 14, 2021
- Amber Waves: A Biography of Wheat January 13, 2021
- Capitalism and Catastrophe January 12, 2021
- Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020 January 8, 2021
- Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Makes It Worse. January 4, 2021
- New Challenges in South Africa’s Fight for Climate Justice January 1, 2021
Michael Yates: Economist’s Travelogue
- What we sow is what we eat September 21, 2017
- A Land Grant in Maine: The Gift That’s Been Giving Since 1767 September 6, 2016
- Let’s Get Serious About Inequality and Socialism May 7, 2016
- Bernie Sanders’ “Political Revolution” February 29, 2016
- Geraldine July 7, 2015
- Dreaming of the Dead January 23, 2015
- Those Who Came Before Us* January 5, 2015
- Dolphins at the Hilton November 24, 2014
- Order-Givers and Order-Takers* October 27, 2014
- Sacco and Vanzetti* August 23, 2014