Article Subjects and Geography: Democracy
The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime
April 1, 2025
John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U.S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense. However, he writes, the fact that the ruling-class oligarchy is now openly wielding power on the national and international stages as part of the Trump regime shows that the overwhelming political influence of the capitalist class is no longer in dispute as this alignment pushes the country deeper into neofascism.
January 2025 (Volume 76, Number 8)
January 1, 2025
Monthly Review editors take on the results of the 2024 election, exploring how the lackluster reformist policies of the Biden administration and unfocused nature of the Harris campaign served to drive away much of the working class, as reflected in part by the expansion of the Party of Nonvoters. As neoliberal positions occlude the possibility of a Popular Front against Trump’s fascism, any substantive victory must come from a revolutionary restructuring of society.
The Delusions of Liberal Democracy: Imperialism and Militarism in Pakistan
January 1, 2025
Against a backdrop of political turmoil and a popular uprising, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar examines how the contradictions of liberal democracy have played out in Pakistan. Exploring the dynamic between the U.S.-backed, militarized Pakistani political elite and the rise of reactionary politician Imran Khan, Akhtar shows how Khan has employed empty anti-imperialist rhetoric to mobilize a discontented populace—and how this could be counteracted with a genuine anti-imperialist movement.
The Specter of ‘Knowledge as Commons’
March 1, 2024
Sam Popowich is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. On October 3, 2023, in an egregious violation of press freedom, the founder of the progressive Indian media company… READ MORE
China’s Health and Health Care in the “New Era”
October 1, 2023
Wei Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation… READ MORE
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
September 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is… READ MORE
Planning and the Ecosocialist Mode of Cooperation
July 1, 2023
Nicolas Graham is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University in the Department of Sociology at Glendon College. Economic planning, which is premised on control and public ownership of enterprises… READ MORE