Notes from the Editors, June 2020
June 1, 2020
As we write these notes, the price on the futures contract for West Texas crude oil expiring for May delivery fell to a negative $37.63 a barrel, constituting the biggest… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Crisis
COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism: Commodity Chains and Ecological-Epidemiological-Economic Crises
June 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2020
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
How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?
April 1, 2020
Julius Alexander McGee is assistant professor of sociology at Portland State University. Patrick Trent Greiner is assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. The climate crisis is proving to be… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2019
December 1, 2019
On October 18, 2019, Bloomberg ran an article by its financial columnist Elisa Martinuzzi entitled “Which is Scarier, Climate Change or CLOs?” The article featured a picture of Greta Thunberg… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2019
October 1, 2019
If there is one thing that is clear about the economic situation in the mature capitalist economies, as we write these notes in mid–August 2019, it is that the financial… READ MORE
Socialist Internationalism Against the European Union
October 1, 2019
Brexit, the European Union, and the Left Costas Lapavitsas’s The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2019) is recognized as the leading work advocating Lexit, the left-wing case for Brexit,… READ MORE
Navigating the Brexit Strait
October 1, 2019
Costas Lapavitsas’s The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2019) is recognized as the leading work advocating Lexit, the left-wing case for Brexit, and for nations leaving the European Union… READ MORE
Learning from Brexit: A Socialist Stance Toward the European Union
October 1, 2019
Costas Lapavitsas’s The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2019) is recognized as the leading work advocating Lexit, the left-wing case for Brexit, and for nations leaving the European Union… READ MORE
Absolute Capitalism
May 1, 2019
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This article is based on a keynote address, entitled “Absolute Capitalism: The… READ MORE