Marx’s Open-Ended Critique
May 1, 2018
Two hundred years after Karl Marx’s birth, the influence of his critique of capital is now as great as ever, in the context of what has been called the “Marx… READ MORE
Article Sections: Review of the Month
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
April 1, 2018
Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books. This article is… READ MORE
The Expropriation of Nature
March 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is an associate professor of sociology at the University of… READ MORE
The Present as History’ and the Theory of Monopoly Capital
February 1, 2018
Grzegorz Konat is an economist at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Warsaw, and a frequent contributor to the Polish edition of Le Monde diplomatique. John… READ MORE
Capital’s Historic Circle Is Closing: The Challenge to Secure Exit
December 1, 2017
In June 2017, István Mészáros sent me a copy of the present article for publication in Monthly Review. At the time, he asked if I would write an introduction, as… READ MORE
The Long Ecological Revolution
November 1, 2017
Aside from the stipulation that nature follows certain laws, no idea was more central to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and to the subsequent development of what came… READ MORE
Venezuela’s Fragile Revolution: From Chávez to Maduro
October 1, 2017
Steve Ellner taught history and political science at Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela from 1977 to 2003, and has written widely on Venezuela and the Latin American left. The Venezuelan… READ MORE
The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society
September 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. His latest book is Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. This article is a… READ MORE
This Is Not Populism
June 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. I am concerned with power politics—that is to say, I make use of all means that seem to me to be… READ MORE