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
Articles
Mészáros and Chávez: The Philosopher and the Llanero
June 1, 2022
Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. It is… READ MORE
Mészáros and Chávez: “The Point from Which to Move the World Today”
June 1, 2022
This essay has been adapted from the section on “Mészáros and Chávez” in the introduction to István Mészáros’s Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State (Monthly Review Press, 2022). István Mészáros… READ MORE
The Roots of the Science-Practice Gap: A Materialist View
June 1, 2022
Ricardo Dobrovolski is an associate professor at the Institute of Biology of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He would like to thank Rejane Santos-Silva, Vitor Dantas, Caroline Birrer, Isabel… READ MORE
Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable
June 1, 2022
Alejandro Pedregal is a researcher, writer, and filmmaker. Juan Bordera is a journalist, screenwriter, and activist. We are facing today the most pronounced and remarkable of all contradictions: that between… READ MORE
The Jakarta Method, Then and Now: U.S. Counterinsurgency and the Third World
June 1, 2022
Sarah Raymundo is assistant professor at the Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines. She is the international liaison officer of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) and chairperson… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2022
May 1, 2022
As we write these notes in late March 2022, the war in Ukraine continues to escalate, threatening to mutate instantaneously into a global thermonuclear war, which would result in the… 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
Giving War a Chance
May 1, 2022
Laurence H. Shoup is a California-based author and activist. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and… READ MORE
Marxism, Science, and Science Studies: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26
May 1, 2022
Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the… READ MORE