• Introduction to the Brazilian edition of Facing the Anthropocene
    Introduction to the Brazilian edition of Facing the Anthropocene

    Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and  the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) continues to be well received worldwide. This is the introduction to the most recent edition released in the autumn of 2023—a Portuguese translation from the noted Brazilian publishing house Boitempo.

    Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development
    Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development

    With global capitalism’s worsening poverty and environmental crises, sustainable human development comes to the fore as the primary question that must be engaged by all twenty-first century socialists in core and periphery alike. It is in this human developmental connection, I will argue, that Marx’s vision of communism or socialism (two terms that he used interchangeably) can be most helpful.

    Gramsci’s animality
    Gramsci’s animality

    Prison Notebooks sets the tone with “Animality and Industrialism,” Gramsci’s original work-in-progress header for the section he’d eventually label “Americanism and Fordism.”

    Criticism LTD w/ Matt Seybold
    Criticism LTD w/ Matt Seybold

    Matt Seybold joins Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson to discuss the political economy of literary criticism from past to present, amateur to professional. Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature at Elmira College and Resident Scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In addition to writing and teaching in the field of literature & economics, Seybold produces and hosts The American Vandal podcast, an ever-growing collection of conversations and presentations about literature, humor, and history in America that is inspired by Mark Twain’s life and legacy. 

    John Pilger (1939-2023)
    John Pilger (1939-2023)

    A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.

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