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
Article Subjects and Geography: Capitalism
Capitalism and Mental Health
January 1, 2019
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. A mental-health crisis is… READ MORE
South Africa’s ‘Radical Economic Transformation’
September 1, 2018
Lekgantshi Console Tleane is a research associate in the Change Management Unit of the Office of the Principal and Vice Chancellor at the University of South Africa. Nearly a quarter-century… READ MORE
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
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 Great Struggle to Escape Capitalism
July 1, 2017
Bernard D’Mello is deputy editor of Economic and Political Weekly. The crisis of the ruling order that unfolded in Russia in 1917 brought on an enormous social upheaval, culminating in… READ MORE
Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
May 1, 2017
Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour (Bookmarks, 2014). Capitalism has, to put it mildly, a peculiar relationship with the natural world.1 Karl Marx perhaps summarized it best… READ MORE
The Anthropocene Crisis
September 1, 2016
This article is adapted from the foreword to Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). For it is because… READ MORE
The Opt Out Revolt: Democracy and Education
March 1, 2016
In the United States today, the age of monopoly-finance capital and neoliberal politics, all aspects of social life are being financialized at breakneck speed, while the economy as a whole… READ MORE
A Question of Place
December 1, 2015
Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) was a contributor to Monthly Review for over forty years. With her late husband James Boggs, she co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (Monthly… READ MORE