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Monthly Review Volume 77, Number 3 (July-August 2025)

July-August 2025 (Volume 77, Number 3)

This month’s “Notes from the Editors” discusses the accelerating progress of China toward sustainability. China’s decline in carbon emissions and rapidly decarbonizing energy sector demonstrates the importance of societal realignment and extensive planning to shift toward the ecological modernization that has continued to elude monopoly-capitalist regimes. | more…

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Chávez and the people (Kael Abello)

A Special Issue on Communes in Socialist Construction

Inspired by the Venezuelan project of building socialism via the commune, this special issue looks at attempts to use communal models in socialist projects in a range of different contexts, as well as the theoretical bases for such an endeavor. In their introduction, guest editors Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual argue that the theme of Communes in Socialist Construction is an important opportunity for engaged Marxist reflection of a kind that offers valuable contributions to the universal body of socialist thought. | more…

El Panal communards with Laila Khaled (Voces en Lucha)

Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism: The Marxist Approach

This article will be released in full online July 7, 2025.

Chris Gilbert proposes to answer the question: When is a socialist commune anti-imperialist? His response follows Karl Marx’s line of thought, looking at the latter’s approach to the commune from the Grundrisse through his late notes and letters on rural communes. After reconstructing the Marxist communal strategy, Gilbert argues that real-world projects in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil in recent times conform to this overall Marxist approach, combining communal construction with an anti-imperialist drive for national liberation. | more…

Thousands of workers and peasants convened in 2023 in New Delhi to protest the central government and its policies (CITU)

The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

This article will be released in full online July 14, 2025.

Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik consider the historical views of the relationship between the proletariat and peasantry during the revolutionary transition to socialism and struggle against imperialism. While other thinkers have suggested that alliances between the two groups must be shed in order to complete the revolution, the Patnaiks propose a framework of voluntary cooperatization benefiting all. | more…

Bust of Karl Marx in Centro Comercial Colonial de la ciudad de Maracay, Venezuela

Marx and Communal Society

This article will be released in full online July 21, 2025.

In this innovative study, John Bellamy Foster gets to the heart of Marx’s writing on communal societies—an aspect of Marx’s work that is often overlooked, despite its importance to the socialist project. Tying together Marx’s studies of anthropology, history, and ethnology, Foster illuminates the centrality of communalism to Marx’s overall critique of class-based societies. | more…

Workers loosen and and rake the topsoil of raised beds at the Organopónico Vivero Alamar in Havana, Cuba

Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish

This article will be released in full online July 28, 2025.

Brian M. Napoletano revisits the concept of generalized autogestion, traditionally defined broadly as “self-management,” placing it in the context of an ecological path to socialism. Using this orientation, Napoletano leads to reader to consider the potential of socioecological approaches to repairing the metabolic rift and pursuing sustainable human development. | more…

Socioecological Contradictions in the Development of Socialist Collective Farming: Drawing from USSR and Hungarian Histories

This article will be released in full online August 11, 2025.

Through a detailed exploration of the impacts of collective farming on local soils, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro engages in key questions around the past and present of communal agricultural production. These insights shed light on not only specific projects, but future considerations for communal farming, framed by the dialectical relationship of nature and society. | more…

Making Every Yard a Farm and Every Garage a Factory: The Theory and Practice of Cooperation Jackson

This article will be released in full online August 18, 2025.

Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson outlines the ongoing projects and objectives of the Mississippi-based collective Cooperation Jackson. Akuno enumerates the many ways Cooperation Jackson has worked toward improving material conditions and building dual power in support of the Black working and peasant classes in the Mississippi Delta region. | more…

Monthly Review Volume 77, Number 2 (June 2025)

June 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2)

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. | more…

U.S. POLITICS IS BLACKMAIL

The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism

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. | more…

Blister packs of pills

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

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.” | more…

The "Long Live the Overall Victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" Cultural Revolution Stamp (Second Draft) canceled and issued by the People's Republic of China

China’s “Triple Revolution Theory” and Marxist Analysis

In this contribution to the further development of socialism with Chinese characteristics Cheng Enfu and Yang Jun offer their “Theory of Triple Revolution,” enumerating the historical stages of the Chinese Revolution and analyzing its current trajectory. A complete revolutionary view of Marxism in China, they conclude, “will advance the spirit of the revolution to its completion….[moving] forward along the correct track of Marxism, such that a powerful revolutionary vision will open up before us.” | more…

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