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The Ethics and Dialectics of Freedom and Universality: The Sources of Materialist Moral Judgments Review
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The Ethics and Dialectics of Freedom and Universality: The Sources of Materialist Moral Judgments

Oscar R. Ralda reviews Vanessa Christina Wills's Marx's Ethical Vision (2024). Wills's text, Ralda notes, demonstrates a "facility with which [she] deals with Marx's works, as well as a "strong philosophical case…for the ongoing relevance of a coherent Marxian moral theory." The latter, Rada notes, sheds light on the moral imperative to work toward socialist liberation from a foundation of resolute Marxian values.
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November 2025 (Volume 77, Number 6)
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Eco-Marxism and Prometheus Unbound: Capitalist versus Socialist Ecomodernism Review of the Month

Eco-Marxism and Prometheus Unbound: Capitalist versus Socialist Ecomodernism

by John Bellamy Foster
In Aeschylus’s play Prometheus Bound, the Prometheus is a revolutionary figure. Defying divine interdiction to bring fire to humanity, the Titan has since been adopted by thinkers from the Enlightenment to today to represent revolutionary forces in human existence. So, John Bellamy Foster asks in November’s Review of the Month, what is “Prometheanism,” and how has the term been used (and misused) in discussions of Marx, the ecological crisis, and sustainable human development?
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The World Wants to Advance to Socialism Article

The World Wants to Advance to Socialism

by Vijay Prashad
In this far-reaching analysis, Vijay Prashad enumerates the conditions of the current conjuncture that, despite seemingly intractable capitalist and imperialist hegemony, point to a reinvigorated revolutionary consciousness among the global population. In a world of capitalist degradation, Prashad declares: "A politics to produce dignity is a socialist politics…. Capitalism inherently generates forms of inequality and indignity. Therefore, all undertakings that seek dignity for all are socialist projects."
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Ecological Marxism in the Anthropocene Review of the Month

Ecological Marxism in the Anthropocene

by John Bellamy Foster, Xu Tao and Lv Jiayi
In this interview with Xu Tao and Lv Jiayi, John Bellamy Foster discuss the history and present of ecological Marxism. Foster explores origins of the term Anthropocene and its predecessors, the concept of degrowth, the continuing influence of metabolic rift theory, and the cutting-edge issues facing young scholars of degrowth today.
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Has the Anthropocene Been Canceled? Article

Has the Anthropocene Been Canceled?

by Ian Angus
Ian Angus illuminates the politics behind the decision by the International Union of Geological Sciences not to recognize the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch. In recounting the debate, Angus explores how the organization undermined the conclusions of top scientists to oppose the establishment of the Anthropocene, and its implications for the public debate about the planetary crisis.
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Marxism and the History of Philosophy Article

Marxism and the History of Philosophy

by Helena Sheehan
"Why," Helena Sheehan asks, "have Marxists…put so much emphasis on the history of philosophy?" She adds: "Is the current G. W. F. Hegel revival conductive to coming to terms with the current conjuncture?" In answering these questions, Sheehan elucidates deep truths about the core of Marxist philosophy and practice, and the importance of remaining deeply rooted in the real world.
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The Economics Profession “Discovers” Secular Stagnation Article

The Economics Profession “Discovers” Secular Stagnation

by Michael Meeropol, Howard J. Sherman and Paul D. Sherman
Michael Meeropol, Howard J. Sherman, and Paul D. Sherman give an account of how mainstream economists came to adopt the idea of secular stagnation, even without recognizing its origins in the work of Marxist economist and MR founder Paul M. Sweezy. The turn, they write, came in the wake of the Great Recession, when the tendency toward stagnation in the U.S. economy became undeniable.
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The great insomnia Poetry

The great insomnia

by Marge Piercy
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
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The Long Road of Tariq Ali Review

The Long Road of Tariq Ali

by Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle reviews two books by renowned leftist Tariq Ali. In these two texts, Buhle writes, one can read and discern a history of the UK left. Through Ali's autobiography, Buhle writes, readers can experience the ups and downs of various factions, from the Labour Party to Trotskyist journals; through his memoirs, we get a sense of Ali's deep insights, drawn from his extensive travels and a life deeply embedded in history.
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Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century Review of the Month

Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

by Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh illuminates how capitalism has exacerbated inequality not only due to market forces, but as a result of how wealthy countries and firms based within them have tilted the scales toward themselves, disenfranchising the rest of the world in the process. This pervasive economic inequality, Ghosh concludes, undermines the idea and practice of true democracy.
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The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear Article Interview

The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear

by Abdaljawad Omar and Pasquale Liguori
In this interview, published here for the first time in English, Abdaljawad Omar (aka Abboud Hamayel) and Pasquale Liguori discuss Western media attempts to force upon Palestinians narratives of either victimhood or savagery. These portrayals, however, only obscure the threat Palestinian resistance poses not just to Zionism, but to the colonial project globally.
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Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti Article

Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti

by Steve Cushion
In 2003, Haitian president Jean-Betrand Aristide publicly called for France to pay reparations to Haiti—and less than a year later, was whisked away from the island via U.S. military aircraft. Steve Cushion sheds light on the colonial and neocolonial relationships that have imposed crushing debt on Haiti and its people, and their continuing implications for Haiti's development.
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Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times Article

Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times

by Andy Merrifield
Andy Merrifield explores Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose," a satirical tale featuring a puffed-up government official who finds himself suddenly nose-less. As the official pursues his formerly attached schnozz through the streets of St. Petersburg, Gogol bestows upon readers a twisted parable revealing the pettiness and indolence pervading the corridors of power.
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