April 1, 2024
In a December 2023 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Richard Haass, former special assistant to H. W. Bush, declared that the world has descended into a “new world disorder,” lamenting the long-lost dream of unending U.S. hegemony. This month’s “Notes from the Editors” reflects on not only Haass’s recent statements, but his longstanding advocacy of an “Imperial America” designed to ensure U.S. domination on the world stage.
April 1, 2024
In this review of Immanuel Ness’s Migration as Economic Imperialism, Torkil Lauesen illuminates the links between the migration of labor to theories of equal exchange, which have traditionally focused on international trade. These connections, Lauesen writes, relate to transfer of labor power from the periphery to the core, and the concomitant exploitation of vulnerable workers from the Global South.
February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE
February 1, 2024
This article was originally written for A New Global Geometry?: The Socialist Register 2024 (Merlin Press, forthcoming). It has been lightly edited for Monthly Review. When I come to study… READ MORE
February 1, 2024
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development in Venice…. READ MORE
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Paul Buhle has been a contributor to Monthly Review since 1970. His latest graphic novel is The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance. � Linda Dittmar, Tracing Homelands:… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
buy this issue Fearful of losing its imperial hegemony over the world economy due to the rise of China as a major economic power, the United States is seeking to… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
Gabriel Rockhill is executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is currently completing his fifth single-author book,… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
Damian Winczewski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland. It is widely assumed that the fundamental reason for the longstanding… READ MORE
