The great denial
January 1, 2021
Somewhere a man is ranting�a man used to power and mad�with it. He is the one he loves�so how can others resist, deny � fail to carry out his sacred… READ MORE
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The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology
December 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Alejandro Pedregal is a writer, filmmaker, and lecturer at Aalto University, Finland…. READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2020
November 1, 2020
In this issue of Monthly Review, we are publishing two articles marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels: John Bellamy Foster’s “Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the… READ MORE
Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
November 1, 2020
The author would like to thank Fred Magdoff for his help at several points in this article. In “The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”… READ MORE
Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics
November 1, 2020
Kaan Kangal is an associate professor of philosophy at Nanjing University, specializing in dialectics, hermeneutics, metaphysics, and Marx-Engels research. His work on Marx’s Bonn Notebooks won the 2019 David Riazanov… READ MORE
The Commodification of Online Cooperation
November 1, 2020
Joshua Sperber is an assistant professor of political science and history at Averett University. He is the author of Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in… READ MORE
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
November 1, 2020
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including A Redder Shade of Green (Monthly Review Press, 2017). This article is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2020
September 1, 2020
On January 21, 2020, Greta Thunberg, who today embodies the world’s climate conscience, gave a crystal-clear speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos. In it, she explained that in… READ MORE
I wake every day to this
September 1, 2020
Cruelty seems to win votes.�The shouter is heard. The whisperer�shot to silence. Words turn�to worms and wriggle in our food. � We live in times dangerous�to butterflies, polar bears and… READ MORE