Notes from the Editors, January 2020
January 1, 2020
In December 1973, MR editor Paul M. Sweezy, who had made a number of trips to Chile and was a friend of Salvador Allende (a guest at Allende’s inauguration), wrote… READ MORE
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Liberating Women from “Political Economy”: Margaret Benston’s Marxism and a Social-Reproduction Approach to Gender Oppression
January 1, 2020
Tithi Bhattacharya is a Marxist feminist author and activist. She is the editor of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto Press, 2017) and coauthor with Nancy Fraser and… READ MORE
Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy
January 1, 2020
� Andrey Maidansky is a professor of philosophy at the University of Belgorod, Russia. He has published, in Russian, many books and articles on Baruch Spinoza, Marxism, and history of… READ MORE
On the Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics and the Theory of Knowledge of Materialism
January 1, 2020
This essay by Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov (1924–79), “On the Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics and the Theory of Knowledge of Materialism,” was published in his most widely known work, Dialectical… READ MORE
Interrogating the Cultural Production of Mexico
January 1, 2020
Brian M. Napoletano is an assistant professor at the Center for Investigations in Environmental Geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research is focused on developing the geography… READ MORE
The Wisdom of a Socialist Defector
January 1, 2020
Harry Targ is a retired professor of political science at Purdue University. He has written books and articles on U.S. foreign policy and international political economy, and blogs at Diary… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2019
December 1, 2019
On October 18, 2019, Bloomberg ran an article by its financial columnist Elisa Martinuzzi entitled “Which is Scarier, Climate Change or CLOs?” The article featured a picture of Greta Thunberg… READ MORE
Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
December 1, 2019
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of… READ MORE
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion
December 1, 2019
Mark Jay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author, with Philip Conklin, of the forthcoming book A… READ MORE