December 1, 2024
John Bellamy Foster returns to his impactful Marx’s Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000), for this new introduction for the recent German translation of the book (Marx’ Ökologie, Edition Assemblage, 2024). “There is no longer any question,” he concludes, “about the depth of Marx’s metabolic critique…or its centrality in terms of the philosophy of praxis in our day.”
December 1, 2024
In this review of Andrew Drummond’s The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer (Verso Books, 2024), Paul Buhle explores how the influence of this Christian priest reverberated throughout the centuries, inspiring generations of future revolutionaries—including Karl Marx himself.
April 1, 2024
Matthew Sharpe discusses Aymeric Monville’s Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche (The Misery of Left Nietzscheanism), an exploration of how Nietzsche’s popularity on the left co-opts truly radical energy in favor of authoritarianism and elitism. “If Monville is right,” Sharpe concludes, “Nietzcheanism has acted as a kind of ideological ‘useful idiot.'”
July 1, 2023
buy this issue In his final years, Frederick Engels was deeply concerned about the seeming inevitability of a world war of mass extermination. In his 1887 introduction to a pamphlet… READ MORE
June 1, 2020
Ingar Solty is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books, including Auf… READ MORE
January 1, 2020
Harry Targ is a retired professor of political science at Purdue University. He has written books and articles on U.S. foreign policy and international political economy, and blogs at Diary… READ MORE
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
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
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
March 1, 2017
Julia Smith is a postdoctoral fellow in history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Ahmed White, The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in… READ MORE
