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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In the public eye: EVENTS: Marxist Education Project: June 27th, 2-4:00 ET The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new... READ MORE
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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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The latest: "The left has a long history of predicting the decline of US capitalism and empire. Some argue that Trump is a symptom of that decline — a strongman chosen by capital to set things right — and that the ill health of U.S. capitalism is paralleled by the decline of the dollar. Political economist Stephen Maher counters that U.S. capitalism is robust — to the detriment of most of us...."
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