Notes from the Editors
September 2026 (Volume 78, Number 4)
Review of the Month
India’s Ruling Classes and the Global Crisis
Article
José Carlos Mariátegui and Local Traditions of Struggle
Reprise
The Economics of Destruction
Review
Radical Jewish Tradition
Introduction
The Global Structural Crisis of Capital
Article
On the Economic Crisis of Capitalism
Article
Between the Times: Privatized Keynesianism, Permanent Catastrophe, and the Task of an Economy of Social Production
Article
U.S. Imperialism Resurgent
Article
Monetary Policy and Capitalism
Article
Why Can China Resist Financialization?
Article
Imperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game
Article
Value Chains in the Digital Age: Labor Exploitation and Systemic Ecocide
CLASSICS
If you're in Australia, make sure to go see Ian Angus at Ecosocialism 2026, representing the journal Climate and Capitalism, and offering his book in person! Capitalist imperialism is promoting the far right everywhere, enforcing neoliberal policies, and imposing military aggression and recolonisation on weaker nations. It has no answers to the climate crisis and no solutions for housing and cost of living. The Ecosocialism 2026: Resistance, decolonisation, liberation conference will bring together activists from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond to share experiences in how we can resist Capitalism's depravity and build the mass movements we need for system change. Featuring: Sabrina Fernandes; Ian Angus; Ayesha Ahmad; Remah Naji; and more....
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The latest: Rockhill does not claim, as he was immediately accused of doing, that “Western Marxism” was an “invention” of the CIA. But he reconstructs how the integration of this theoretical output into the “intellectual world war” against socialism was organized and conceptually thought through. He shows how far this integration went in specific cases and why it was logically consistent in terms of content. It was precisely because the “Western Marxists” tended “to support imperialism, or at least to make it acceptable.” It is to Rockhill’s credit that, drawing on the framework of a Marxist history of ideas, a discipline that has largely died out in the German-speaking world, he undertook the attempt to develop a comprehensive conception of this “world war.”
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The latest: "Nimtz’ insightful review has languished for forty years in even more obscurity than Robinson’s book, until it has now been reprinted..."
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The latest, from Paul Buhle: "Abolitionists and social reformers of all kinds, with a wide Yankee following augmented by many recent German immigrants, sought to take things beyond the uneasy accommodation of white populations to each other across existing political lines. In Wisconsin and in Chicago most notably, these would include “Abe’s Boys” enrolling in the army of the Union. Not so in the Southern Illinois, two hours’ drive from my hometown. The whites who immigrated northward from the near South, largely uneducated and lacking skills, came to be considered almost a species in themselves...."
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