June 1, 2024
In a vividly drawn account of El Maizal Commune, Chris Gilbert provides readers with a window into the inner workings of a community being refounded with an eye toward building a new “alternative communal economy.” The task, Gilbert finds, is one that is not only revolutionary, but liberating and creative, having the potential to collectively reimagine the social relations of a community.
May 1, 2024
For our seventy-fifth anniversary issue, John Bellamy Foster revisits the legacy of Albert Einstein and his deep connections to Monthly Review, including his authorship of the article “Why Socialism?,” published in our first-ever issue in May 1949. Through historical documents and the famed physicist’s own words, Foster rediscovers Einstein’s commitment to socialism in both word and deed, and his collegial ties to MR‘s founding editors.
May 1, 2024
In this reprise from September 2000, Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Robert W. McChesney look forward to the future of Monthly Review in the twenty-first century: “Despite mistakes, setbacks, and recognition that the road is long and arduous, we must not waver as we continue to study, educate, and be missionaries for the transcendence of the social system of capitalism and the development…of a society of equals.”
March 1, 2024
Zhun Xu is an associate professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. For years, when the Western mainstream media mentioned the Democratic People’s… READ MORE
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
July 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is 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 the… READ MORE
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
July 1, 2023
Nicolas Graham is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University in the Department of Sociology at Glendon College. Economic planning, which is premised on control and public ownership of enterprises… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Matthias Schmelzer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and coauthor of The Future Is Degrowth (Verso, 2022). Elena Hofferberth is a visiting researcher at the… READ MORE
