Absolute Capitalism
May 1, 2019
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This article is based on a keynote address, entitled “Absolute Capitalism: The… READ MORE
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Searching for Alternatives in Eastern Europe: Tamás Krausz Interviewed by Róbert Nárai
April 1, 2019
Tamás Krausz is professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He is the editor of Eszmélet and author of Reconstructing Lenin (Monthly Review Press, 2015), winner of the 2015… READ MORE
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
March 1, 2019
Intan Suwandi is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Her book, Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism, winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy-Paul A. Baran Memorial Award, is forthcoming… READ MORE
Capitalism Has FailedÑWhat Next?
February 1, 2019
Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system. The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most… READ MORE
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
January 1, 2019
Patrick Bond is a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His most recent book, coedited with Ana Garcia, is BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Haymarket… READ MORE
Marx and Alienated Speciesism
December 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and an associate professor… READ MORE
Value Isn’t Everything
November 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University,… READ MORE
The Communist Manifesto, 170 Years Later
October 1, 2018
Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books, most recently Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capitalism, and Marx’s Law of… READ MORE
Making War on the Planet: Geoengineering and Capitalism’s Creative Destruction of the Earth
September 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This is a slightly revised version of an article published on… READ MORE
The Politics of Food in Venezuela
June 1, 2018
Ana Felicien is a researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research and a founding member of the Semillas del Pueblo (Seeds of the People) movement. Christina M. Schiavoni is… READ MORE