Shadows of the Enlightenment: The Hidden Politics and Ideology of the Natural and Social Sciences
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Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called “Age of Reason” to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social, and historical origins of modern science, and illuminates the a priori and innate features which furnish the justifications for the technical domination and control of nature and humanity.
The natural sciences were born of a market economy, commercial trade, and industrial production, and were furthermore reflective of the values and institutions of modern capitalism and its class system in the seventeenth century. As such, one of the central roles of Western science has been to legitimate its
Monthly Review Volume 77, Number 2 (June 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, June 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism” by John Bellamy Foster
- Article: “The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order” by Thomas I. Palley
- Article: “Big Pharma and Monopoly Capital: Four Dynamics in the Decline of Innovation” by Jia Liu
- Poetry: “What’s going on” by Marge Piercy
- Excerpt: “Gleichschaltung in Nazi Germany” by John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Volume 77, Number 1 (May 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, May 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime” by John Bellamy Foster
- Article: “Neoliberalism and Neofascism” by Robert W. McChesney
- Article: “Decolonization and Its Discontents” by Pranay Somayajula
- Article: “China’s “Triple Revolution Theory” and Marxist Analysis” by Cheng Enfu and Yang Jun

Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 11 (April 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, April 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime” by John Bellamy Foster
- Article: “The Dialectics of Ecology and Ecological Civilization” by Chen Yiwen
- Article: “Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics” by Yumeng Liu
- Reprise: “The Danger of Fascism in the United States: A View from the 1950s” by Paul A. Baran

Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 10 (March 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, March 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue” by John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill
- “The Necessity of a Universal Project” by Ellen Meiksins Wood
- “Arghiri Emmanuel and Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Relevance” by Torkil Lauesen
- “Labor Informality and Unemployment in Brazil: Insights from the Perspective of the Relative Surplus Population” by Renata Falavina and Gabriel Ulbricht
- Poetry: “No horn blowing for me” by Marge Piercy
- Poetry: “Ballade of the Poverties” by Adrienne Rich

Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 9 (February 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, February 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory” by John Bellamy Foster
- “Chinese-Style Modernization: Revolution and the Worker-Peasant Alliance” by Lu Xinyu
- “Emerging Oceanic Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan” by Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi

Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 8 (January 2025)
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- “Notes from the Editors, January 2025” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The Dialectical Ecologist: Richard Levins and the Science and Praxis of the Human-Nature Metabolism” by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
- Article: “Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage” by Craig Medlen
- Interview: “An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist” by Ian Angus and Claudia Antunes
- Article: “Some Preliminary Theses on the Concept of Eco-Civilization” by John Bellamy Foster
- Article: “The Delusions of Liberal Democracy: Imperialism and Militarism in Pakistan” by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
- Poetry: “The Extreme Court” by Marge Piercy
- Commentary: “Empire and Popular Arts: A Note” by Dylan Davis, Paul Buhle and Paul Peart-Smith
Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 7 (December 2024)
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- “Notes from the Editors, December 2024” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “Braverman, Monopoly Capital, and AI: The Collective Worker and the Reunification of Labor” by John Bellamy Foster
- “The Classic Transcending Borders and Ages: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Labor and Monopoly Capital” by Kuang Xiaolu, Li Zhi and Xie Fusheng
- “Monopoly Capital and the Rise of the Synthetic Age” by John Hedlund and Stefano B. Longo
- Poetry: “Every week, another” by Marge Piercy
- “Preface to the German Edition of Marx’s Ecology” by John Bellamy Foster
- Review: “The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism” by Mark Allison
- Review: “New Biography of “China’s First Communist” Reveals Nuances for English-Speaking Readers” by Joel Wendland-Liu
- Review: “Ancient Marxist History” by Paul Buhle
Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 08 (November 2024)
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- “Notes from the Editors, November 2024” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left” by John Bellamy Foster
- “Hegemony and the Subaltern in Kafka’s “Josephine the Singer”” by Christian Noakes
- “The Social Dialectics of AI” by Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Review: “A History of Black Power We Need and Deserve” by Say Burgin
- Review: “Bit Despotism: The Genesis of High-Tech Monopolies” by Mateo Crossa
- Correspondence: “My Notes on ‘The Return of Nature’” by Paul Burkett
Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 5 (October 2024)
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- “Notes from the Editors, October 2024” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “Richard III, the Tudor Myth, and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism” by Thomas E. Lambert
- “Surplus Absorption, Secular Stagnation, and the Transition to Socialism: Contradictions of the U.S. and the Chinese Economies since 2000” by Minqi Li and Lingyi Wei
- “Marxist Ecology in China: From Marx’s Ecology to Socialist Eco-Civilization Theory” by Chen Yiwen
- “Applying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution to Latin America” by Steve Ellner
Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 4 (September 2024)
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- “Notes from the Editors, September 2024” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “The Ecological Rift in the Anthropocene” by John Bellamy Foster, Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi and Michael Löwy
- “Sub-Imperialist India in Washington’s Anti-China “Pivot”” by Bernard D’Mello
- “UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters” by Sylvia J. Martin
- Reprise: “Listen to the Ecologists!” by Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy
- Review: “How Microfinance Financializes Women” by Jingyi Zhang
Monthly Review Volume 76, Number 3 (July-August 2024)
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- “Notes from the Editors, July-August 2024” by The Editors
- Introduction: “Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction” by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
- “Changes in U.S. Grand Strategy in the Indo-Pacific and China’s Countermeasures” by Cheng Enfu and Li Jing
- “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective” by Qiao Collective
- “The Korean Linchpin: The Korean Peninsula’s Enduring Centrality in U.S. Indo-Pacific Geostrategy” by Tim Beal
- “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Peace in Korea and Northeast Asia Now!” by Dae-Han Song
- “When the Ruling-Class Parties Harden: Indonesia and Great Power Politics in the Indo-Pacific” by Iqra Anugrah
- “Net-Zero and the China Challenge: Decarbonization amid Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific” by Julie de los Reyes and Jewellord Nem Singh