Germany’s Hidden Social Crisis
April 1, 2019
Victor Grossman is an American journalist and author who has lived in Berlin for many years. His most recent book is A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (Monthly Review… READ MORE
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Read Revolting Prostitutes: Your Socialism Depends on It
April 1, 2019
Brit Schulte is a lecturer, curator, community organizer, and underemployed art historian. They are currently based in New York. Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2019
March 1, 2019
As we write these notes in the first week of February 2019, the United States is openly directing a political-economic coup in Venezuela. At the same time, it has announced… 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
Economic Surplus, the Baran Ratio, and Capital Accumulation
March 1, 2019
Zhun Xu is an economics professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. His most recent book is From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban… READ MORE
Self-Knowledge, Estrangement, and Social Metabolism
March 1, 2019
� Boris Hennig is an associate professor of ancient philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto. He earned his PhD from Universität Leipzig. His research focuses on metaphysics, logic, and epistemology…. READ MORE
The Criminal Dimension of Climate Change
March 1, 2019
Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleoclimate scientist. He is a visiting fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at Australian National University, College of Science. This review is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2019
February 1, 2019
Cover image adapted from the mural by Banksy in Brooklyn, NY. See Benjamin Sutton, “Banksy Blitz Continues in NYC with New Murals in Brooklyn,” hyperallergic, March 19, 2018. Climatologist James… 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
New Means of Workplace Surveillance: From the Gaze of the Supervisor to the Digitalization of Employees
February 1, 2019
Ivan Manokha is a departmental lecturer in international political economy in the department of international development at Oxford University. Introduction In the last twenty years or so, workplace surveillance has… READ MORE