Germany’s Hidden Social Crisis
April 1, 2019
Victor Grossman is an American journalist and author who has lived in Berlin for many years. His most recent book is A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Europe
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
The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift
July 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and an associate professor… READ MORE
Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder: Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
July 1, 2018
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). A… READ MORE
On English Farming and Sewers
July 1, 2018
� On November 7, 1859, the Times of London carried a letter from John Mechi, a prominent advocate of scientific farming, warning of “the gradual but sure exhaustion of the… READ MORE
1862 Preface to Agricultural Chemistry
July 1, 2018
� In 1862, Justus von Liebig published the seventh edition of his Organic Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, more commonly known as Agricultural Chemistry. It was standard… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2018
May 1, 2018
Over the last few years, MR and Monthly Review Press have published several special issues and books on the restructuring and privatization of K–12 education (see the July–August 2011, June… READ MORE
Revolution or Decadence? Thoughts on the Transition between Modes of Production on the Occasion of the Marx Bicentennial
May 1, 2018
Samir Amin is the director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books, most recently Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of… READ MORE
Behind the ‘Black Protests’: The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Poland
May 1, 2018
Paweł Szelegieniec is a doctoral candidate in political science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. On October 3, 2016, cities across Poland were seized by massive demonstrations against new proposals… READ MORE
The Multiple Meanings of Marx’s Value Theory
April 1, 2018
� Riccardo Bellofiore is a professor of economics at the University of Bergamo. � This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Union for Radical Political… READ MORE