Article Category: Vol. 76, No. 10 (March 2025)

March 2025 (Volume 76, Number 10)

March 2025 (Volume 76, Number 10)

by The Editors

March 1, 2025

The editors analyze recent shift in mainstream discourse away from the goal of energy transition toward capitalist friendly policies that allow corporations to receive large subsidies for inadequate "solutions." Despite the scientific consensus that these are insufficient to tackle the planetary crisis, capital and its advocates continue to promote the abandonment of the energy transition in the effort to maintain U.S. imperial dominance and feed its hunger for fossil fuels.
Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue

Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue

by John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill

March 1, 2025

John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill assess the history and influence of Western Marxism, defined not geographically, but by a rejection of the Marxism developed in the Soviet Union, in the Global South, and even in classical Marxism. This strain of Marxist thought, birthed in the imperial core, represents a concession to the dominance of U.S. ideology, rather than to correct the pressing issues confronting society today.
The Necessity of a Universal Project

The Necessity of a Universal Project

by Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster

March 1, 2025

In this excerpt from Ellen Meiksins Wood's In Defense of History, Wood appraises the state of postmodern thought in the late twentieth century. "Today's postmodernism," Wood writes, "for all of its apparently defeatist pessimism, is still rooted in the 'Golden Age of Capitalism.' It's time to leave that legacy behind and face today's realities."
Arghiri Emmanuel and Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Relevance

Arghiri Emmanuel and Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Relevance

by Torkil Lauesen

March 1, 2025

Torkil Lauesen delves into the legacy of celebrated Arghiri Emmanuel, whose theory of unequal exchange resonates well into the twenty-first century. Introduced in 1962, Emmanuel's critique of Ricardian and neoliberal capitalism further illuminated the Marxist concept value as it relates to global exchange and the ongoing exploitation of the Global South by the Global North.
Labor Informality and Unemployment in Brazil: Insights from the Perspective of the Relative Surplus Population

Labor Informality and Unemployment in Brazil: Insights from the Perspective of the Relative Surplus Population

by The Editors

March 1, 2025

Using data from Brazil's Integrated System of Household Surveys, Renata Falavina and Gabriel Ulbricht employ Marxist categories in order to illuminate the concept of the reserve army of labor in the context of underemployment and informal labor in modern-day Brazil. This view, the authors write, shows that the dichotomy of full employment and unemployment fails to capture the complexity of unstable labor dynamics in a world of informal and precarious work.

Ballade of the Poverties

by Adrienne Rich

November 1, 2009

Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, the most recent being A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

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