heaven is a place on earth
December 1, 2023
let’s build a place! � let’s build a place,�like all the other places. � with tall buildings,�like all the other places with tall buildings, � and crowded streets,�like all the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Movements
‘Ballad of an American’: The Illustrious Life of Paul Robeson, Newly Illustrated
November 1, 2023
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and… READ MORE
China’s Health and Health Care in the “New Era”
October 1, 2023
Wei Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation… READ MORE
Relative Pauperization and Involution in Contemporary China: A Survey of Jingzhou City
October 1, 2023
Alex Witherspoon is a graduate student at Yangtze University’s School of Economics and Management in Jingzhou, China. Amir Khan is an associate professor of English in the Foreign Studies College… READ MORE
Unequal Value Transfer from Mexico to the United States
October 1, 2023
Mateo Crossa is a research professor at Instituto Mora, Mexico City. Utilizing a Marxist perspective and the concept of unequal exchange, I describe here the enormous drain of wealth that… READ MORE
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
September 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is… READ MORE
Totality: Decades of Debate and the Return of Nature
September 1, 2023
Helena Sheehan is a professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught philosophy of science, history of ideas, and media studies. She is the author of several books, including… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2023
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
Where Danger LiesÉ: The Communal Alternative in Venezuela
July 1, 2023
Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. His upcoming… READ MORE
Planning an Ecologically Sustainable and Democratic Economy: Challenges and Tasks
July 1, 2023
Martin Hart-Landsberg is professor emeritus of economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. We desperately need an ecosocialist-inspired transformation of the U.S. economy, one that will allow us to… READ MORE