July 1, 2023
Economic planning, Nicolas Graham writes, was not, perhaps a major theme in Capital. However, Marx's understanding of such planning—as yet unrealized societal capability—yields great insight into how we might reorient modes of production toward cooperation and coordination. "Despite bourgeois and neoliberal ideology," he writes, "planning is both an urgent necessity and a liberatory potentiality."
July 1, 2023
Degrowth promises to liberate society from the imperative of capital accumulation. "So how," Matthas Schmelzer and Elena Hofferberth wonder, "might planning beyond growth look?" It is not, they write, only a proposal for a postcapitalist society, but for a radical transformation of our institutions and social relations to create a more sustainable and just world.
May 1, 2023
Lula's electoral victory may have reinvigorated the Brazilian left, but the destruction wrought by ultraconservative ex-president Jair Bolsonaro presents a monumental task for the new government. Rosa Marques and Paulo Nakatani review the challenges Lula has faced with an eye to those still to come.
May 1, 2023
In this prescient article from 1995, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy show that, through their own profligacy, the ruling classes have lost their capacity for political rule. The way forward, Magdoff and Sweezy write, is an "organized, militant struggle," and with victory necessarily leading to the overthrow of capitalist rule.
April 1, 2023
"There is no longer any question that the United States is waging a New Cold War," MR editors write in this month's "Notes from the Editors." This war, waged not only against Russia, but increasingly against China, whose approach to global governance is seen as a threat to U.S. imperialism.
March 1, 2023
Steve Ellner analyzes the debate surrounding the wave of elections of left-leaning political leaders in Latin America, known as the Pink Tide. Critics of these governments, Ellner suggests, emphasize their shortcomings at the expense of recognizing their anti-imperial position.
July 1, 2022
The South African climate justice movement presents a model for popular revolt against the ecofascist project.
April 1, 2022
The cold-blooded murders of activists by state forces in India represents a historical pattern of extrajudicial repression.
