Notes from the Editors, July-August 2020
July 1, 2020
As this special issue of Monthly Review on racial capitalism goes to the printer, the entire United States has been upended by more than a week of protests and riots,… READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, June 2020
June 1, 2020
As we write these notes, the price on the futures contract for West Texas crude oil expiring for May delivery fell to a negative $37.63 a barrel, constituting the biggest… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2020
May 1, 2020
More than a century ago, the British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s protégé and Karl Marx’s close friend, warned in The Kingdom of Man that the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2020
March 1, 2020
Capitalism, with its history of alienation, exploitation, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia, along with its attempted commodification of everything in existence, has long robbed tens of millions of people in the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2020
February 1, 2020
Economists generally expect wages to rise significantly at the peak of the business cycle. The fact that this is not happening today is seen as something of a paradox. According… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2020
January 1, 2020
In December 1973, MR editor Paul M. Sweezy, who had made a number of trips to Chile and was a friend of Salvador Allende (a guest at Allende’s inauguration), wrote… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2019
December 1, 2019
On October 18, 2019, Bloomberg ran an article by its financial columnist Elisa Martinuzzi entitled “Which is Scarier, Climate Change or CLOs?” The article featured a picture of Greta Thunberg… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2019
November 1, 2019
Immanuel Wallerstein, the celebrated world-systems theorist and longtime contributor to Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press, died on August 31, 2019. Wallerstein first achieved international fame with the publication in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2019
October 1, 2019
If there is one thing that is clear about the economic situation in the mature capitalist economies, as we write these notes in mid–August 2019, it is that the financial… READ MORE