November 1, 2026
In this election season, the
MR Editors consider the history of U.S. interventions in foreign elections throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century and, in particular, the notable uptick in such meddling in the post-Cold War era. Throughout the capitalist world, Western "democracies"—which are democratic in form only and oligarchic in their content—continue to look away while the United States covertly and overtly engineers interference in elections around the globe on behalf of Trump-aligned, right-wing demagogues.
November 1, 2026
John Bellamy Foster discusses the tradition of cultural analysis in
Monthly Review with Jennifer Ponce de León and Gabriel Rockhill. "
MR's approach…over its long history," Foster explains, "has been a product of its deep commitment to historical materialism." Drawing parallels between Bertolt Brecht's observations during Hitler's rise in Germany and an analysis of MAGA-style fascism under Trump today, it becomes clear that "control of the intellectual and cultural life of the nation is integral to the neofascist project." However, there is also hope, as culture "constantly emerges from below in revolutionary new forms, which cannot be entirely repressed."
November 1, 2026
"The immediate aim of ecological civilization is to improve the relationship between society and nature," declare Chen Yiwen and Wang Congcong in their insightful investigation of the ecological materialism fundamental to the eco-civilizational project. China's vision of an ecological civilization, they note, is "grounded in a specific material foundation…neither a romantic antimodernism nor a simplistic degrowth stance." However, to achieve its aims, China must "demonstrate a greater capacity than capitalist societies to regulate and harness" capital while developing "ecologically rational modes of production and living, and new strategies of modernization."
November 1, 2026
MR is pleased to be able to share with readers Gabriel Rockhill's Introduction to
The Poverty of Left Nietzscheanism by Aymeric Monville (Iskra Books, 2026). Rockhill provides readers with a thorough account of the rehabilitation of Nietzsche within French Theory and its consequences within the non-communist left. Fascism, Rockhill argues, "can only be understood and contested through materialist analysis and anticapitalist praxis"—a fitting preamble to a book that acts as "an insightful indictment of the dominant capitalist ideologies while clearly articulating the political path forward."
November 1, 2026
In this stirring foreword to Chris Kaspar de Ploeg's
The Exterminating Empire (Monthly Review Press, 2026), Jason Hickel decries a world in which cruelty, genocide, and rapacious capitalism have become de rigueur, seemingly with no consequences for the Western elites perpetuating these atrocities in the Global South. "The narrative of 'double standards,'" Hickel writes, "presupposes that they have at least some shred of morality. But they do not. For them there is but one standard: the law of capital."
