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
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
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
U.S. Economic Planning in the Second World War and the Planetary Crisis
February 1, 2023
Martin Hart-Landsberg is professor emeritus of economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is also the author of the blog Reports from the Economic Front, where an earlier… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2023
January 1, 2023
buy this issue The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed thirty years ago this year, at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. It was one of… READ MORE
Reflections on Lenin’s Dialectics
January 1, 2023
Pyotr Kondrashov is a leading research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. � Vladimir Ilyich Lenin made… READ MORE
Crypto Convulsions, Digital Delusions, and the Inexorable Logic of Finance Capitalism
December 1, 2022
Ramaa Vasudevan is a professor of economics at Colorado State University. The implosion of the market for digital assets in May 2022—the coming of the crypto winter—signals yet another Minsky… READ MORE
Mining Capital and the Indonesian State
December 1, 2022
Arianto Sangadji is a researcher at Celebes Institute in Palu and a research advisor at Aksi Ekologi dan Emansipasi Rakyat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Historically, considerable amounts of mineral deposits have… READ MORE
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Other “-Cenes”: Why a Correct Understanding of Marx’s Theory of Value Is Necessary to Leave the Planetary Crisis
November 1, 2022
Carles Soriano is a senior researcher at the Geosciences Barcelona Institute of the Spanish National Research Council. The perception that we are living in a critical historical period regarding the… READ MORE
End of Cold War Illusions
November 1, 2022
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
Strategies for Degrowth
November 1, 2022
Mariko Frame is an assistant professor of economics at Merrimack College and the author of Ecological Imperialism, Development, and the Capitalist World-System: Cases from Africa and Asia (Routledge, 2022). �… READ MORE