January 1, 2023
This issue's Review of the Month discusses Marx's role as the foremost revolutionary critic of bourgeois Enlightenment humanism. To this day, his conception of "the universal metabolism of nature" remains a powerful antidote to the phantasmagoric "dark ecology" posited by today's posthumanism.
January 1, 2023
The global balance of power shifting. The resistance to NATO's push for a New Cold War is growing, particularly among the Third World countries that have historically borne the brunt of the West's imperial projects. It is the role of socialists living in the imperial core, Paweł Wargan writes, to support the peoples of the Third World as they rise up in the new era.
January 1, 2023
Pyotr Kondrashov takes a deep dive into Lenin's understanding of social dialectics. This exploration gives rise to an approach to that places the active human subject squarely in the center of a revolutionary Marxism that goes "beyond Marx," furthering the struggle for a liberated society.
January 1, 2023
In this prescient chapter from 1982, author and activist Anne Braden draws a direct line from the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era to state repression of mass movements from the civil rights era to the rapid expansion of the racist police state that continues to this day. This chapter is reprinted from Anne Braden Speaks (Monthly Review Press, 2022).
