Article Category: Vol. 77, No. 02 (June 2025)

June 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2)

June 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2)

by The Editors

June 1, 2025

This month, the editors dive into the history of Nazi Germany for a discussion of Gleichschaltung, which in this instance describes the "falling into line" of institutions and individuals under fascism. As the editors point out, the extralegal and norm-breaking actions may be justified rhetorically by the fascist regime but require the acquiescence of the larger society in order to become effective—a process we are currently watching in real time.
The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism

The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism

by John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2025

In this third installment of MR's series on the MAGA movement, John Bellamy Foster explores the dramatic shift in U.S. imperialism that began with the first Trump presidency and has accelerated in his second. The shift, Foster explains, is not one driven by anti-imperialism and anti-militarism but rather represents a hard shift to the right fueled by hypernationalism and the goal of recapturing U.S. power on the world stage.
The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order

The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order

by Thomas I. Palley

June 1, 2025

Thomas Palley identifies and illuminates both the internal and external drivers of the war in Ukraine. Through this article, he explores how the breakup of the Soviet Union, the aggressive expansion of NATO, U.S. neoconservative geopolitics, present-day Ukraine's domestic tensions, and other factors led to the current conflict, in which the only winner seems to be the United States.
Big Pharma and Monopoly Capital: Four Dynamics in the Decline of Innovation

Big Pharma and Monopoly Capital: Four Dynamics in the Decline of Innovation

by Jia Liu

June 1, 2025

In an age of cutting-edge medical science, how do the world's largest pharmaceutical companies stifle innovation in order to juice profits and remain competitive in the international markets? The answer, Jia Liu writes, can be found in the concept of monopoly capitalism. This brand of "intellectual monopoly capitalism," she notes, contributes to "a logic of expropriation and rent-seeking," leading in turn to "closed science and declining medical innovation."
‘Gleichschaltung’ in Nazi Germany

‘Gleichschaltung’ in Nazi Germany

by John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2025

In this excerpt from John Bellamy Foster's Trump in the White House (Monthly Review Press, 2017), Foster expands on the concept, origins, and practical effects of Gleichschaltung (falling into line) in Nazi Germany and its relevance today. As Foster writes "to put such a neo-fascist strategy in place requires a new kind of Gleichschaltung"; one in which all of society—from the judiciary to Congress to cultural and media institutions—are brought into line.

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