Hitting the mark: “Grand Theft Capital”, by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
October 27, 2026
The latest: Red Pepper's David Matthews picks six of the best new books for leftists...Monthly Review Press
In NYC or DC in coming days? See Aymeric Monville, Jennifer Ponce de León and Gabriel Rockhill, speaking live on “Requiem for French Theory”
October 27, 2026
LIVE in NYC, October 29th, at CUNY; LIVE in DC, October 30th, at Busboys and Poets; (a couple of days ago at Philly's Free Library)...
In Chicago in November? August Nimtz’ “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”
October 27, 2026
The latest, an interview by Constantin Berlin, for Jacobin: "The recently published collection, 'Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique,' makes accessible, for the first time, a critique that spans four decades and addresses Robinson’s claims and those made by his followers by putting forth an authentic Marxism as the most reliable method for human liberation in the real world and explaining why it remains the guiding principle for the transracial class struggle today...."
In Amsterdam in November? Join Chris dePloeg, Jason Hickel and more, live, for “The Exterminating Empire”
October 26, 2026
Will you be in Amsterdam on November 23rd? Head to the social center known as Pakuis de Zwijger for a lively and engaging event with Chris dePloeg together with renowned climate author Jason Hickel (in person), frontline Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (joining online) and moderator, climate justice activist and researcher Harriët Bergman. There will also be cultural performances from Chihiro Geuzebroek and brothers Chris and Max de Ploeg, tying their ancestral struggles in Bolivia and Armenia to the global struggle for liberation.
Recently reissued: The Rainbow Challenge (Excerpt)
October 26, 2026
"Jesse Jackson’s first presidential primary race in 1984 should have been a wakeup call for the Democratic Party...."
The latest on Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”
October 16, 2026
The latest: "...social democratic outlets such as Jacobin (18 April 2026) have reduced Rockhill’s analysis to a crude and simplistic narrative: that the CIA simply paid off these academics and effectively invented various opportunist trends. Detractors of Rockhill’s work have also disingenuously presented this caricature as Rockhill’s actual analysis...."
In the Public Eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”
September 14, 2026
The latest: The London Review of Books' Letters section features a quote from John Bellamy Foster's introduction....
Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”
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
Matthew Stanley’s “The Ragged Edge of Freedom”
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...."
Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?
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...