November 1, 2024
In August 2020, ecosocialist thinker, MR author, and jazz musician Paul Burkett wrote to MR editor John Bellamy Foster about the latter’s recent book, The Return of Nature (Monthly Review Press, 2020). Burkett’s short correspondence revealed his deep understanding of the throughline tying the ecologically inspired thought of Marx and Engels to the later innovations of Roy Bhaskar, Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, and others, all the way up to Foster’s own work demonstrating that these developments are not isolated, but part of an evolving ecosocialist tradition.
April 1, 2019
Michael Roberts is a Marxist economist. He is the author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2016) and writes regular commentary and analysis… READ MORE
April 1, 2019
We agree with Michael Roberts that Marxists do not “own the expression” financialization. We disagree, however, with respect to the importance of the actual historical phenomenon represented by financialization and… READ MORE
June 1, 2017
Dear Editors, We were disappointed by Rick Baum’s attack on our union local, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 2121, in the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review (“A Teachers Union… READ MORE
September 1, 2014
To the Editors, In the June 2014 issue of Monthly Review, the “Notes from the Editors” included criticism of a recent article of mine and an ad hominem argument that… READ MORE
April 1, 2011
Michael Meeropol is the older son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. He is the coauthor, with his brother Robert, of We Are Your Sons and editor of The Rosenberg Letters,… READ MORE
April 1, 2010
Thomas I. Palley ([email protected]) is an economist living in Washington, D.C. He has formerly worked as assistant director of public policy at the AFL-CIO and as chief economist of the… READ MORE
April 1, 2010
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Fred Magdoff) of The Great Financial Crisis (Monthly… READ MORE
May 1, 2009
Ernest Haberkern authored, in collaboration with Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution Volume V: War and Revolution (Center for Socialist History, 2005), which is available from Monthly Review Press…. READ MORE
December 1, 2007
Ken Collier is a retired professor of social work, social policy, and community studies, now living in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. He began reading MR in 1959 and is a… READ MORE
