Notes from the Editors, June 2023
June 1, 2023
Much of the impact of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s now-classic work Monopoly Capital when it was published in 1966, at the very height of the Vietnam War, can be… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
The Disinformation Wars: An Epistemological, Political, and Socio-Historical Interrogation
June 1, 2023
Helena Sheehan is 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 The… READ MORE
Grand Theft Capital: The Increasing Exploitation and Robbery of the U.S. Working Class
May 1, 2023
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Creating an Ecological Society (with… READ MORE
The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?
May 1, 2023
Rahul Varman is on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, where he teaches and writes about corporations and the neoliberal order. The author is grateful to… READ MORE
Superexploitation and the Imperialist Drive of Capitalism: How Marini’s ‘Dialectics of Dependency’ Goes beyond Marx’s ‘Capital’
April 1, 2023
Andy Higginbottom is a former associate professor at Kingston University, London. He continues as an independent scholar and activist. The publication in English of Ruy Mauro Marini’s The Dialectics of… READ MORE
The Meaning of ‘So-Called Primitive Accumulation’
April 1, 2023
Ian Angus is editor of the online journal Climate & Capitalism and author most recently of The War Against the Commons (Monthly Review Press, 2023), where this article appears as… READ MORE
The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism
March 1, 2023
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil… READ MORE
Limits to Supply Chain Resilience: A Monopoly Capital Critique
March 1, 2023
Benjamin Selwyn is a professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Struggle for Development (2017), The Global Development Crisis… READ MORE
The new normal
March 1, 2023
We have been a nation of consumers.�Stores beckoned in every mall, stuffed�high with clothes produced by barely�paid labor in distant countries; � stuffed with gadgets that lost value�the minute you… READ MORE
The Puzzle of Financialization
March 1, 2023
Harry Magdoff was coeditor of Monthly Review from 1969 until 2006. Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine from… READ MORE