June 1, 2024
In a vividly drawn account of El Maizal Commune, Chris Gilbert provides readers with a window into the inner workings of a community being refounded with an eye toward building a new “alternative communal economy.” The task, Gilbert finds, is one that is not only revolutionary, but liberating and creative, having the potential to collectively reimagine the social relations of a community.
April 1, 2024
In a world of convergent crises, leading voices have called for radical changes to food, financial, and energy systems. However, these fail to account for a deeper systemic crisis: unfettered and accelerating of capital accumulation. In this article, M. Graziano Ceddia and Jacopo Nicola Bergamo provide a more comprehensive narrative, one which emphasizes capital as a social relation—and the potential of the environmental proletariat to dismantle its dominance.
March 1, 2024
Zhun Xu is an associate professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. For years, when the Western mainstream media mentioned the Democratic People’s… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
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. His upcoming… READ MORE
March 1, 2023
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil… READ MORE
July 1, 2022
João Pedro Stedile is a Brazilian economist, activist, and writer. He is a member of the national board of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), of which he is a cofounder…. READ MORE
April 1, 2021
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Creating an Ecological Society (coauthored… READ MORE
July 1, 2020
Carrie Freshour is a Southerner and assistant professor of geography at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on low-wage food and agricultural labor in the U.S. South, race and… READ MORE
May 1, 2020
More than a century ago, the British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s protégé and Karl Marx’s close friend, warned in The Kingdom of Man that the… READ MORE
May 1, 2020
This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry the same date at the end of the article the day it… READ MORE
