For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
- Issue:
- Vol. 73, No. 11 (April 2022)
April 1, 2022
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.
Article Subjects and Geography: Global
Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
- Issue:
- Vol. 73, No. 10 (March 2022)
March 1, 2022
From September to November 2021, overlapping with the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference negotiations in Glasgow, three major interrelated developments occurred in global finance. Taken together, these changes mark a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and the culmination of a theoretical shift in the dominant economic paradigm aimed at the unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including "natural capital."
The End of the Trilogy
- Issue:
- Vol. 73, No. 10 (March 2022)
March 1, 2022
In Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State, István Mészáros closes a trilogy that was first outlined in Marx's Theory of Alienation, later greatly developed in Beyond Capital, and is now concluded in this new work. Throughout his immensely rich work, Mészáros developed, amid many original formulations, an increasingly relevant concept: capital's order of social metabolic reproduction.
Revisiting Marx on Race, Capitalism, and Revolution
March 1, 2022
Did Karl Marx have a theory of race and capitalism? Not exactly, but he theorized on these issues over four decades and much of what he wrote still speaks to us today. At a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat, these writings are worth revisiting.
Notes from the Editors, February 2022
February 1, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of going away, with a new wave of SARS-CoV-2 now occurring in the form of the more readily transmittable Omicron variant. In these circumstances, the issue of vaccine imperialism, dividing the Global North and the Global South, has taken on new significance.
Lukács and the Tragedy of Revolution: Reflections on “Tactics and Ethics”
February 1, 2022
For Georg Lukács, revolution represented the realm of the objectively possible. He saw the tragedy of action as a necessary element in a movement toward greater human freedom synonymous with historical necessity.
‘Bury Class Society Before It Buries Us All’: Eleanor Burke Leacock’s Vision for a Marxist Feminist Anthropology
February 1, 2022
Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact. Writing during the grimmest period of Cold War reaction, Leacock put forward a critique of the mainstream U.S. ideology, which took for granted the idea that there were only two genders, in binary opposition to each other, and that these were the direct product of so-called male and female nature.
Magic, Necromancy, and the Nonhuman Turn
February 1, 2022
Across the humanities and the social sciences, critical attention is being given to the nonhuman as an ecological, philosophical, and political problem—the nonhuman here meaning anything from animals and plants to manufactured objects. Going under names as various as new materialism, political ecology, and object-oriented ontology, these studies comprise a movement that is largely described as the nonhuman turn.
Notes from the Editors, January 2022
January 1, 2022
Cuba's world leadership in sustainable human development is of world-historic importance.
Notes from the Editors, December 2021
December 1, 2021
With the rapidly worsening capitalist demolition of the planetary environment and the expansion of ecosocialist movements in response, leading establishment think tanks, like the corporate-supported Breakthrough Institute, dedicated to promoting the ideology of "green capitalism" at any cost, have found themselves in a difficult place.