The New Irrationalism
February 1, 2023
More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914–1945, represented by the First World War, the Great Depression, and Second World War, we are seeing a… READ MORE
Article Sections: Review of the Month
Marx’s Critique of Enlightenment Humanism: A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective
January 1, 2023
This article was the closing keynote speech for the international conference on Marx and the Critique of Humanism at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, November… READ MORE
The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The Struggle for Freedom as Necessity
December 1, 2022
This article is the 2020 Deutscher Memorial Lecture, delivered each year by the recipient of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, and which was awarded in 2020 to John… READ MORE
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Other “-Cenes”: Why a Correct Understanding of Marx’s Theory of Value Is Necessary to Leave the Planetary Crisis
November 1, 2022
Carles Soriano is a senior researcher at the Geosciences Barcelona Institute of the Spanish National Research Council. The perception that we are living in a critical historical period regarding the… READ MORE
Ecological Civilization, Ecological Revolution: An Ecological Marxist Perspective
October 1, 2022
This is an adapted version of a lecture delivered to the John Cobb Ecological Academy in Claremont, California, on June 24, 2022, on the topic of ecological civilization. It was… READ MORE
Ten Questions About MarxÑMore Than Twenty Years After ‘Marx’s Ecology’
September 1, 2022
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Roberto Andrés is an environmental journalist based in Buenos Aires and former… READ MORE
Panopticon
June 1, 2022
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and… READ MORE
‘Notes on Exterminism’ for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements
May 1, 2022
In 1980, the great English historian and Marxist theorist E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class and leader of the European Nuclear Disarmament movement, wrote… READ MORE
The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
April 1, 2022
On October 28, 2021, political leaders in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo signed an agreement with the Singapore shell company Hoch Standard, without the knowledge… READ MORE
Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
March 1, 2022
The expropriation of the commons, its simplification, division, violent seizure, and transformation into private property constituted the fundamental precondition for the historical origin of industrial capitalism. What Karl Marx referred… READ MORE