Notes from the Editors
May 2026 (Volume 78, Number 1)
Review of the Month
The Fetishism of AI
Article
Engels’s Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology
Article
Marx on the Circular Economy
Article
Slipping into Gogol’s “Overcoat”: A Winter’s Tale
Review of the Month
The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang
Article
The Material Basis of a Spectre: Why China’s Youth Are Rediscovering Mao
Article
Yellow Shades upon a Global Color Line: Historicizing Filipino America and the “Deadliest Phase of U.S. Imperialism”
Article
From Classic Labor to the Labor of the ‘General Intellect’: The Impact of the Digital Intelligence Era on Socialist Labor Theory
Review of the Month
French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War
Article
Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism?
CLASSICS
Join us 5/28 for the first-ever in-person launch of the Socialist Register in New York City, at The People’s Forum! This is your chance to come meet, in person, our new editor, Arun Kundnani, alongside the relatively new coeditor of the Socialist Register, Steve Maher (alongside Greg Albo), and three contributors to this year’s volume: Ibrahim Shikaki, Costas Lapavitsas, and Paul Heideman.
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June 29th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.
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The latest: "This examination of the 400-year history of European colonisation through the prism of ‘the political economy of enslavement’, is an act of completion. It integrates historical accounts that are relatively well known with detailed connections to a wider history and legacy of racial slavery. For decades, the history of the repeal of overt slavery by the British state was not so much taught as misrepresented, arguably until the twenty first century. Today, attempts to tell this history as it was and make connections to the modern world are increasingly being presented by the influential and US inflected Right in the UK as treasonable narratives introduced to pollute the purity of British history. Therefore, with accusations of ‘woke history’ to contend with, it is important that this full multidimensional exposure of slavery and its ongoing consequences should become the educative standard."
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The latest: "Epicurus set up schools, first in Lampsacus (in modern day Turkey), then later in Athens. Other philosophical schools in the city used public space for lectures and attracted young, well educated, aristocratic Greek men. His critique of the ruling classes that dominated these schools that “'Nothing is enough for those for whom enough is too little' is as applicable today as in his age...."
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