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Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates...
Breaking the Bonds of Fate
The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation....
Silencing "Fighting Bob”
Silencing "Fighting Bob” tells the story of the coordinated attack by the federal government on the progressive opponents of the first world war. As Eric Chester reminds us, the American people saw...
The Labor of Architecture
The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.” In popular imagination, as author...
Shadows of the Enlightenment
Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called “Age of Reason” to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social,...
Toppling the First Ministry
Toppling the First Ministry, by T. M. Thomas Isaac and Richard W. Franke, tells the story of the CIA’s covert operations against India’s first Communist ministry. When Kerala, the south-west Indian...
A Radical Anthropologist
“Anthropology is a child of Western imperialism,” asserted the Marxist anthropologist Kathleen Gough in 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggle in Asia and Africa. Since then, this...
Unequal Exchange
How one nation can grow rich at the expense of another is one of the central problems of economics in the era of neo-colonialism. Traditional doctrine, resting on Ricardo’s theory of comparative costs,...
Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
Reveals that the institution of slavery was anchored in the same exploitative capitalist system which remains in place todaySlavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World, by Stephen...
Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?"
A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialismFirst published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Albert...
Roses for Gramsci
A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio GramsciIn June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved from the UK to...
Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads
Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded onto the...
The Physics of Capitalism
A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order—which values our collective future over immediate economic gainsThe fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain...
The Class Struggle and Welfare
A fresh look on the welfare system—with a view beyond the stateWith The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon—a...
Paraguayan Sorrow
The first-ever English translation of one of the legends of the Latin American leftRafael Barrett was born into the Spanish elite, but in the six intense years that he spent in Paraguay, he shed his...
A Rotten Crowd
A look at how much, and how little, has changed about class in AmericaOne century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the “rotten crowd,” Jazz Age Americans with far more money...