I am wrestling with despair
November 1, 2017
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth.The meanness of it gets me,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Global
The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society
September 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. His latest book is Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. This article is a… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2017
July 1, 2017
Monthly Review, we never tire of pointing out, is subtitled An Independent Socialist Magazine. From the beginning, this meant that MR was associated with no particular socialist political party, grouping,… READ MORE
Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1917Ð2017
July 1, 2017
The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. From the start, the October Revolution seemed both to confirm and contradict Marx’s… READ MORE
The October Revolution and the Survival of Capitalism
July 1, 2017
Prabhat Patnaik is professor emeritus at the Center for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and coauthor, with Utsa Patnaik, of A Theory of Imperialism (Columbia University Press,… 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
Revolution from North to South
July 1, 2017
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His most recent book is Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2016)…. READ MORE
An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point? Global Warming, the Two Climate Denials, and the Environmental Proletariat
May 1, 2017
Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket, 2017). In the summer of… READ MORE
Organisms and Objectifications: A Historical-Materialist Inquiry into the ‘Human and Animal’
March 1, 2017
� Joseph Fracchia is professor emeritus in the Robert D. Clark Honors College and the Department of History at the University of Oregon. � This article is adapted from an… READ MORE