Monthly Review Press Blog Archives - Page 17 of 149

Sorting through confusion on the repatriation of Haitian refugees (Listen to Dr. Horne on the Carl Nelson Show)

February 20, 2024

The short answer is that when the U.S. was involved in Afghanistan, we cut deals with many warlords, shorthand for gangsters, that’s number one. Number two: Afghanistan is quite rich with mineral wealth, which ironically enough, may end up going to the People’s Republic of China, which is quite close to the Pakistanis, which was the major creator and backer of the Taliban, who are now in power. The third point, however, is that the Taliban is going to have a hard way to go…”

Externalization of costs, an Indonesian case study (“Value Chains” reviewed by Global Labour Journal)

February 20, 2024

Value Chains thoroughly and powerfully critiques modern-day forms of capitalism by bringing back to the table the much-needed analytical lens of imperialism to show the continuities of unevenness, an unequal world economic system, and the dominance of powerful corporations and nations over other regions, places, economies, labour and resources.

The Seattle General Strike, within a history of oppression and persistent resistance (Science & Society reviews “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”)

February 20, 2024

‘Radical Seattle’ identifies the IWW as a catalyst for the germination of a class consciousness that encouraged individual laborers to recognize a kinship in their struggle and respond collectively.

An exhortation to reckon with systemic biases and inequalities (Science & Society reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World”)

February 20, 2024

It is a promising thing when a book titled Can the Working Class Change the World? feels current amid national and global upheaval, despite having been published two years ago….

As skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as archival spelunking (Science & Society reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse”)

February 20, 2024

I read this gorgeous, furious book while teaching the first half of the U. S. history survey: 1607–1877….In this book as well as its recent antecedent, ‘The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean,’ Horne turns to examine the earlier foundations of empire and racial capitalism. Unlike much of his other work, these books are primarily secondary-source–driven. But Horne is that historian, as skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as he is at archival spelunking.

Listen: As back-orders for “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'” pile up, Antifada speaks with Michael Heinrich

February 20, 2024

Michael Heinrich “has a powerful critique of vulgar Marxism and the orthodoxies of the 19th and 20th centuries…Nerds, you’re not going to want to miss this one!”

Critical clarity of perspective on pandemic’s cause (‘Dead Epidemiologists’ reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)

February 20, 2024

Dead Epidemiologists “speaks more plainly than academic jargon is wont to allow. Yet, in my view, this is one of the book’s biggest strengths. It makes the book accessible, and that accessibility is going to be important if we, as a global community, are to tackle the problem that Wallace and his colleagues articulate…”

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

February 20, 2024

It is worth summing up some of these key lies: 1) Venezuela was “once prosperous.” In fact, Venezuela was an unequal country in which most people were poor despite the country’s oil wealth; 2) Venezuela was a democracy before Chavismo. In fact, politicians alternated holding power according to an undemocratic agreement, and rammed austerity down the throats of Venezuela’s poor by committing massacres, such as the Caracazo….

Time to rewrite the history of Juneteenth (Gerald Horne interviewed by The Defender Network)

February 20, 2024

“I’m going to argue that it’s not only June 19, 1865, that we should mark, but also June 19, 1867, because that’s when the French leader Maximillian was killed. It marks the end of the attempt to continue our enslavement in Mexico. It’s a history that I would urge others to investigate….”

WATCH! MR Conversations: Heinrich’s “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'”

February 20, 2024

Marx’s reflections assume the existence of a money commodity, in this case gold. If a commodity functions as money, then the value of the money commodity is no more imaginary than the value of other commodities….

Books

Authors

On The Site

Category: Monthly Review Press Blog

Sorting through confusion on the repatriation of Haitian refugees (Listen to Dr. Horne on the Carl Nelson Show)

Externalization of costs, an Indonesian case study (“Value Chains” reviewed by Global Labour Journal)

The Seattle General Strike, within a history of oppression and persistent resistance (Science & Society reviews “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”)

An exhortation to reckon with systemic biases and inequalities (Science & Society reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World”)

As skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as archival spelunking (Science & Society reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse”)

Listen: As back-orders for “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'” pile up, Antifada speaks with Michael Heinrich

Critical clarity of perspective on pandemic’s cause (‘Dead Epidemiologists’ reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

Time to rewrite the history of Juneteenth (Gerald Horne interviewed by The Defender Network)

WATCH! MR Conversations: Heinrich’s “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'”

Recent Posts

Tags

Categories

Books

Authors

On The Site

Recent Posts

Tags

Categories

Newsletter sign-up