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The Labor of Architecture
The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.” In popular imagination, as author...
Monthly Review Vol. 77 (2025–2026), No. 04 (September 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, September 2025" by
- "Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century" by
- "The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear" by
- "Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti" by
- "Gogol's Nose: On the Scent of Our Times" by
- "Black Scare in California: Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and '70s" by
- "Freedom and Economics" by
Shadows of the Enlightenment
Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called “Age of Reason” to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social,...
Breaking the Bonds of Fate
The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation....
Toppling the First Ministry
Toppling the First Ministry, by T. M. Thomas Isaac and Richard W. Franke, tells the story of the CIA’s covert operations against India’s first Communist ministry. When Kerala, the south-west Indian...
Unequal Exchange
How one nation can grow rich at the expense of another is one of the central problems of economics in the era of neo-colonialism. Traditional doctrine, resting on Ricardo’s theory of comparative costs,...
Monthly Review Vol. 77 (2025–2026), No. 03 (July-August 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, July-August 2025" by
- Introduction: "A Special Issue on Communes in Socialist Construction" by and
- Interview: "Venezuela's Communal Project" by and
- Article: "Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism: The Marxist Approach" by
- Article: "The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today" by and
- Article: "Marx and Communal Society" by
- Article: "Charting a...
Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
Reveals that the institution of slavery was anchored in the same exploitative capitalist system which remains in place todaySlavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World, by Stephen...
Monthly Review Vol. 77 (2025–2026), No. 02 (June 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, June 2025" by
- Review of the Month: "The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism" by
- Article: "The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order" by
- Article: "Big Pharma and Monopoly Capital: Four Dynamics in the Decline of Innovation" by
- Poetry: "What's going on" by
- Excerpt: "'Gleichschaltung' in Nazi Germany" by
Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?"
A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialismFirst published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Albert...
Monthly Review Vol. 77 (2025–2026), No. 01 (May 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, May 2025" by
- Review of the Month: "The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime" by
- Article: "Neoliberalism and Neofascism" by
- Article: "Decolonization and Its Discontents" by
- Article: "China's "Triple Revolution Theory" and Marxist Analysis" by and
Roses for Gramsci
A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio GramsciIn June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved from the UK to...
Monthly Review Vol. 76 (2024–2025), No. 11 (April 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, April 2025" by
- Review of the Month: "The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime" by
- Article: "The Dialectics of Ecology and Ecological Civilization" by
- Article: "Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics" by
- Reprise: "The Danger of Fascism in the United States: A View from the 1950s" by
Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads
Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded onto the...
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates...
Monthly Review Vol. 76 (2024–2025), No. 10 (March 2025)
- "Notes from the Editors, March 2025" by
- Review of the Month: "Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue" by and
- Article: "The Necessity of a Universal Project" by
- Article: "Arghiri Emmanuel and Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Relevance" by
- Article: "Labor Informality and Unemployment in Brazil: Insights from the Perspective of the Relative Surplus Population" by and
- Poetry: "No horn blowing...