April 1, 2025
John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U.S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense. However, he writes, the fact that the ruling-class oligarchy is now openly wielding power on the national and international stages as part of the Trump regime shows that the overwhelming political influence of the capitalist class is no longer in dispute as this alignment pushes the country deeper into neofascism.
January 1, 2025
Monthly Review editors take on the results of the 2024 election, exploring how the lackluster reformist policies of the Biden administration and unfocused nature of the Harris campaign served to drive away much of the working class, as reflected in part by the expansion of the Party of Nonvoters. As neoliberal positions occlude the possibility of a Popular Front against Trump’s fascism, any substantive victory must come from a revolutionary restructuring of society.
January 1, 2025
Against a backdrop of political turmoil and a popular uprising, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar examines how the contradictions of liberal democracy have played out in Pakistan. Exploring the dynamic between the U.S.-backed, militarized Pakistani political elite and the rise of reactionary politician Imran Khan, Akhtar shows how Khan has employed empty anti-imperialist rhetoric to mobilize a discontented populace—and how this could be counteracted with a genuine anti-imperialist movement.
March 1, 2024
Sam Popowich is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. On October 3, 2023, in an egregious violation of press freedom, the founder of the progressive Indian media company… READ MORE
October 1, 2023
Wei Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation… READ MORE
September 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Nicolas Graham is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University in the Department of Sociology at Glendon College. Economic planning, which is premised on control and public ownership of enterprises… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Matthias Schmelzer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and coauthor of The Future Is Degrowth (Verso, 2022). Elena Hofferberth is a visiting researcher at the… READ MORE
May 1, 2023
Rosa Maria Marques is a professor at the Department of Economics and at the post-graduate program in political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo in São Paulo,… READ MORE
May 1, 2023
� Harry Magdoff was coeditor of Monthly Review from 1969 until 2006. Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine… READ MORE
