Notes from the Editors, March 2024
March 1, 2024
From John Bellamy Foster: Paul Burkett’s death on January 7, 2024, at age 67, means that the world is suddenly bereft of the figure who played the leading role over… READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, February 2024
February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2024
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2023
December 1, 2023
buy this issue Fearful of losing its imperial hegemony over the world economy due to the rise of China as a major economic power, the United States is seeking to… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2023
November 1, 2023
buy this issue Last spring, China introduced its Global Civilization Initiative, meant to accompany its earlier Global Development Initiative and its Global Security Initiative (on the latter two initiatives, see… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2023
October 1, 2023
buy this issue What the Joe Biden administration has called the “rules-based international order” stands for those institutions of world governance that were created under the control of the United… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2023
September 1, 2023
On April 27, 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave a speech on “Renewing American Economic Leadership” at the Brookings Institution. Sullivan’s talk was unusual and attracted widespread attention… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2023
July 1, 2023
buy this issue In his final years, Frederick Engels was deeply concerned about the seeming inevitability of a world war of mass extermination. In his 1887 introduction to a pamphlet… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2023
June 1, 2023
Much of the impact of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s now-classic work Monopoly Capital when it was published in 1966, at the very height of the Vietnam War, can be… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2023
May 1, 2023
buy this issue Most of the analysis in Monthly Review on the U.S. role in the Ukraine War thus far has focused on the enlargement of NATO (including the U.S./NATO… READ MORE