September 21, 2026
A New York Times headline in early 2026 announced what many workers have known for years: “For Many Cash-Strapped Americans, ‘Basic Living has become a Burden.’” Living paycheck-to-paycheck, with little... READ MORE
September 20, 2026
The latest: "On Coming From Left Field, the conversation with August Nimtz ranges from the Grenadian Revolution and anti-colonial struggles in Africa to Malcolm X, Black nationalism, identity politics, and the enduring question of whether the left can build an independent political alternative to the Democratic Party...."
September 16, 2026
The latest: "In this episode of Coming From Left Field, philosopher and cultural critic Gabriel Rockhill joins Greg Godels & Pat Cummings to explore the Ford Foundation, the 1966 Johns Hopkins conference often cited as a launching point for French Theory in the United States, Cold War cultural politics, and the wider political economy of academic knowledge production...."
September 14, 2026
"Jesse Jackson’s first presidential primary race in 1984 should have been a wakeup call for the Democratic Party...."
September 14, 2026
The latest: The London Review of Books' Letters section features a quote from John Bellamy Foster's introduction....
September 13, 2026
REVIEWS: Counterpunch, “Capitalism is Waging War on Palestine While Creating a Burning Planet” by Daniel Falcone: Daniel Falcone: What is the central argument of The Exterminating Empire and how is... READ MORE
September 8, 2026
Featured review: "Severed Universal Metabolism and Predatory Logic: Groundwork for an Ecosocialist Critique of Capitalism" by Varun Wigmal (INSEE Journal); "The bulk of the book is an attempt to explain the core concepts of ecological Marxism and political ecology by detailing the metabolic processes vital to Earth’s systems. In Chapter 10, Angus discusses the carbon cycle’s breakdown—which is driving climate change—and in Chapter 11, he describes how industrial agriculture is pumping nitrogen into Earth’s systems faster than any natural process through fertilizers, disrupting the nitrogen cycle. Angus proposes a radical reduction in the use of nitrogen and chemical fertilizers as a solution to environmental damage, and envisions a time when it will be possible to feed people without them. These chapters are the strength of Angus’ book. They demonstrate how Marxists should use science to understand the complexity of the damage inflicted by capitalism on the Earth’s systems and develop viable solutions based on the idea of hope without optimism, i.e., confronting adversity rather than denying it
August 31, 2026
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.”
August 13, 2026
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...."
August 12, 2026
In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among younger readers...
