Notes from the Editors, July-August 2020
July 1, 2020
As this special issue of Monthly Review on racial capitalism goes to the printer, the entire United States has been upended by more than a week of protests and riots,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Global
Colonialism, Migration, Pandemic: The Immutable Evidence that Capitalism Is Racist and Misogynist
July 1, 2020
Lilia D. Monzó is an associate professor of education in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. She is the author of A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of… READ MORE
The Yellow Plague and Romantic Anticapitalism
July 1, 2020
Iyko Day is an associate professor of English and critical social thought at Mount Holyoke College and author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism… READ MORE
Racial Capital from Pan-Africanism and Coloniality to Epistemic Rupture: New Directions in a Life with Marxism
July 1, 2020
Jesse Benjamin is a professor at Kennesaw State University, a board member of the Walter Rodney Foundation, and editor of the journals Zanj, Intersectionality, and Groundings at Pluto Journals. He… READ MORE
Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Marxism
July 1, 2020
This article is a reprint of Paul M. Sweezy, foreword in Oliver C. Cox, Race, Class, and the World System, ed. Herbert M. Hunter and Sameer Y. Abraham (New York:… READ MORE
Marx and Slavery
July 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2020
June 1, 2020
As we write these notes, the price on the futures contract for West Texas crude oil expiring for May delivery fell to a negative $37.63 a barrel, constituting the biggest… READ MORE
COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism: Commodity Chains and Ecological-Epidemiological-Economic Crises
June 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2020
May 1, 2020
More than a century ago, the British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s protégé and Karl Marx’s close friend, warned in The Kingdom of Man that the… READ MORE
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital: New York to China and Back
May 1, 2020
This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry the same date at the end of the article the day it… READ MORE