Monthly Review Press

A slim book with profound impact (The Dialectics of Dependency reviewed in ‘Marx & Philosophy Review of Books’)

February 20, 2024

Dependency theory emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to explain the development of Latin America in its dependent relationship with advanced capitalist economies, the US in particular. It served a practical purpose of orienting Latin American Marxists in the revolutionary struggles of that period, following the inspiration of the Cuban revolution and the crises across the region in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, amongst others.

Register: Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

February 20, 2024

Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito will be a keynote speaker at the Ecosocialism 2023, being organised by Green Left — and supported by LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal — in Naarm/Melbourne over July 1–2.

The undaunted I.F. Stone (The Hidden History of The Korean War reviewed in ‘The Progressive’)

February 20, 2024

To this day, memories of cities flattened by U.S. bombers—a scale of technological devastation almost unthinkable even after the atomic bombs of 1945—resonate among Koreans on both sides of the border.

For anyone concerned with the fate of the planet (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘International Affairs’)

February 20, 2024

...Foster believes that only a fundamental change in the logic of value addition can completely heal the metabolic rift....

On the Commons and enclosure: A story to be retold (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Green Left’)

February 20, 2024

Angus’s new book stands out for the refreshing candidness of his worldview, his obvious mastery of the topic and his gift for poignant summary.

Staggering inequality in a “green and pleasant land” (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)

February 20, 2024

Land, animals, wood, forests and space itself was converted into a commodity that could be bought and sold. Fields were engrossed, land was enclosed, commons were privatised. The peasants who lived from the land, were expelled or turned into wage labourers - their old traditions and histories erased.

Beyond “vague notions of environmental stewardship”(Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

February 20, 2024

Foster: "‘If accumulation or economic growth is to be halted in the rich countries, even temporarily, out of ecological necessity, this would require a vast new system of redistribution..."

Cold War 2.0: The Military-Industrial Complex Survives (Washington’s New Cold War reviewed by ‘The Populist’)

February 20, 2024

What has changed in the old and new Cold Wars is the economic situation of the US with respect to China and the Global South....

“The truth was inconsequential” (The Hidden History of the Korean War in ‘Counterpunch’)

February 20, 2024

Tim Beal and Gregory Elich, in the intro to the book, write “There is a certain constancy in human affairs. Deceit, deception, and manipulation are characteristics of power, perhaps especially of modern ‘democratic’ political power—what country does not claim to be adhering to democracy?”

A careful accounting of capital and resistance (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘The Bullet’)

February 20, 2024

This volume is the first in nearly forty years in which Leo Panitch didn’t play a direct role. Though last year’s volume was produced following his tragic death in 2020, he’d been heavily involved in setting its perspectives and goals. The present volume represents both a tribute to Leo and an effort to carry on...

Books

Authors

On The Site

A slim book with profound impact (The Dialectics of Dependency reviewed in ‘Marx & Philosophy Review of Books’)

Register: Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

The undaunted I.F. Stone (The Hidden History of The Korean War reviewed in ‘The Progressive’)

For anyone concerned with the fate of the planet (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘International Affairs’)

On the Commons and enclosure: A story to be retold (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Green Left’)

Staggering inequality in a “green and pleasant land” (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)

Beyond “vague notions of environmental stewardship”(Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

Cold War 2.0: The Military-Industrial Complex Survives (Washington’s New Cold War reviewed by ‘The Populist’)

“The truth was inconsequential” (The Hidden History of the Korean War in ‘Counterpunch’)

A careful accounting of capital and resistance (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘The Bullet’)

Recent Posts

Tags

Categories

Books

Authors

On The Site

Recent Posts

Tags

Categories

Newsletter sign-up