I wake every day to this
September 1, 2020
Cruelty seems to win votes.�The shouter is heard. The whisperer�shot to silence. Words turn�to worms and wriggle in our food. � We live in times dangerous�to butterflies, polar bears and… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Marxism
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2020
July 1, 2020
As this special issue of Monthly Review on racial capitalism goes to the printer, the entire United States has been upended by more than a week of protests and riots,… READ MORE
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
July 1, 2020
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an assistant professor of Africana Studies and political science at Carleton College. In 2020–21, she will serve as the Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Race and Capitalism… READ MORE
Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Marxism
July 1, 2020
This article is a reprint of Paul M. Sweezy, foreword in Oliver C. Cox, Race, Class, and the World System, ed. Herbert M. Hunter and Sameer Y. Abraham (New York:… READ MORE
Marx and Slavery
July 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an… READ MORE
How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
June 1, 2020
Don Fitz is on the editorial board of Green Social Thought and was the 2016 Missouri Green Party candidate for governor. His book Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution is… READ MORE
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
June 1, 2020
Lawfare Is the New Authoritarianism Anthony Robert Pahnke is an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University. Marcelo Milan is an assistant professor of economics and international… READ MORE
German Deunification: Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, and the Liberal Roots of German Neofascism
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
Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels
May 1, 2020
Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. He is the author of Marxism and Ethics (SUNY Press, 2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester… READ MORE
It’s Still Slavery by Another Name
May 1, 2020
Michael D. Yates is the editorial director of Monthly Review Press, a labor educator, and the author of numerous books, including Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review… READ MORE