Nostalgia for what never was
May 1, 2021
My mother hated Stalin�but loved Trotsky. She had�no party affiliation, no friends�with whom to talk politics. � There was only me to listen.�Maybe it was because Trotsky�was Jewish. I don’t… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
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Notes from the Editors, April 2021
April 1, 2021
Paul Blackledge’s “Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature” in this issue was written in commemoration of the bicentennial of Frederick Engels’s birth (see also the articles by John… READ MORE
Repairing the Soil Carbon Rift: Enhancing Agriculture and Environment
April 1, 2021
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Creating an Ecological Society (coauthored… READ MORE
Building Communities of Solidarity
April 1, 2021
Fernando E. Gapasin is a former professor of industrial relations and Chicanx studies. He was the principal researcher for the AFL-CIO Union Cities program. He has fifty-seven years of activism… READ MORE
History comes in bad cycles
April 1, 2021
I watched the insurrectionists assault�the capital with Trump flags, anti-Semitic�signs, gas masks, guns and enough�angry hatred to kill those they see � as enemies. War in the streets the man�in… READ MORE
I wake to the possible
April 1, 2021
Today for the first time in four�years, I go to the computer�without dread about what new�horror is done or pending. � Hope has felt dangerous,�remote, unlikely. I dare now�to feel… READ MORE
What Sort of Kinetic Materialism Did Marx Find in Epicurus?
April 1, 2021
Boris Hennig is an associate professor of ancient philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto. He earned his PhD from Universität Leipzig. � Thomas Nail, Marx in Motion (Oxford University Press,… READ MORE
Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature
April 1, 2021
Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. He is the author of Friedrich Engels’s Contribution to Social and Political Theory (New York: SUNY Press, 2019), Marxism… READ MORE
These Brothers Chose Well
April 1, 2021
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press, 2018), among many other books…. READ MORE
Socialist Practice and Transition
April 1, 2021
Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the editor of Latin America’s… READ MORE