History comes in bad cycles
April 1, 2021
I watched the insurrectionists assault�the capital with Trump flags, anti-Semitic�signs, gas masks, guns and enough�angry hatred to kill those they see � as enemies. War in the streets the man�in… READ MORE
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I wake to the possible
April 1, 2021
Today for the first time in four�years, I go to the computer�without dread about what new�horror is done or pending. � Hope has felt dangerous,�remote, unlikely. I dare now�to feel… READ MORE
What Sort of Kinetic Materialism Did Marx Find in Epicurus?
April 1, 2021
Boris Hennig is an associate professor of ancient philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto. He earned his PhD from Universität Leipzig. � Thomas Nail, Marx in Motion (Oxford University Press,… READ MORE
Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature
April 1, 2021
Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. He is the author of Friedrich Engels’s Contribution to Social and Political Theory (New York: SUNY Press, 2019), Marxism… READ MORE
These Brothers Chose Well
April 1, 2021
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press, 2018), among many other books…. READ MORE
Socialist Practice and Transition
April 1, 2021
Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the editor of Latin America’s… READ MORE
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot?
April 1, 2021
Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the republication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary James Connolly, the recording and publication of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2021
March 1, 2021
In September 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping astonished the world by unexpectedly declaring that China would peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and reach zero net carbon emissions (carbon neutrality)… READ MORE
The Ideology of Late Imperialism: The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International
March 1, 2021
Zhun Xu is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, and Howard University. To get in touch, you can e-mail zxu [at] jjay.cuny.edu…. READ MORE
Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
March 1, 2021
Zophia Edwards is an assistant professor of sociology and Black Studies at Providence College in Rhode Island. In June 2020, while the Americas were deep in the throes of the… READ MORE