July 1, 2024
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark introduce this summer’s special issue on “Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific,” exploring how the super-region came to be conceptualized among geopolitical strategists and its present-day role in U.S military strategy. “The United States,” they write, “facing the demise of its global hegemonic imperialism, is not only preparing for a Third World War; it is actively provoking it.”
July 1, 2023
All important concepts are dialectically vague at the margins. —Herman E. Daly1 The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary… READ MORE
July 1, 2022
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a… READ MORE
January 1, 2022
Manolo De Los Santos is co-executive director of the People’s Forum and researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He coedited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord, 2020)…. READ MORE
July 1, 2021
On March 24, 2021, a high-profile article proclaiming “There Will Not Be a New Cold War” appeared in Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, the… READ MORE
February 1, 2021
Utsa Patnaik is professor emerita and Prabhat Patnaik is professor emeritus at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Utsa’s books include The… READ MORE
January 1, 2021
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at… READ MORE
December 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Alejandro Pedregal is a writer, filmmaker, and lecturer at Aalto University, Finland…. READ MORE
November 1, 2020
The author would like to thank Fred Magdoff for his help at several points in this article. In “The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”… READ MORE
October 1, 2020
The history of capitalism has been punctuated by periodic struggles for hegemony over the world economy, leading to a centuries-long series of world wars.1 In the twenty-first century, all signs… READ MORE