January 1, 2018
This article was initially published in Polish, in Realny kapitalizm. Wokół teorii kapitału monopolistycznego [Real Capitalism: Exploring Monopoly Capital Theory], edited by Grzegorz Konat and Przemysław Wielgosz (Warsaw: Instytut Wydawniczy… READ MORE
November 1, 2017
Aside from the stipulation that nature follows certain laws, no idea was more central to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and to the subsequent development of what came… READ MORE
September 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. His latest book is Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. This article is a… READ MORE
September 1, 2017
Rebecca Clausen is a professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College, and coauthor, with Stefano B. Longo and Brett Clark, of The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture… READ MORE
July 1, 2017
The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. From the start, the October Revolution seemed both to confirm and contradict Marx’s… READ MORE
June 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. I am concerned with power politics—that is to say, I make use of all means that seem to me to be… READ MORE
April 1, 2017
There is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it… READ MORE
March 1, 2017
This article is a revised version of an earlier essay by the same title, published online in Jacobin on November 28, 2016, to mark the 196th anniversary of Engels’s birth…. READ MORE
February 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Paul Burkett, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket,… READ MORE
December 1, 2016
Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands,… READ MORE
