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
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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
Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels
May 1, 2020
Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. He is the author of Marxism and Ethics (SUNY Press, 2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester… READ MORE
And then, I think about war
May 1, 2020
Trees no longer holding their arms up to heaven�block the road, intersecting the wrong planes.�The rain does not wash, but slices wind-driven knives�into everything permeable. The dark, a heavy cloak,… READ MORE
The Rift of Éire
April 1, 2020
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
How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?
April 1, 2020
Julius Alexander McGee is assistant professor of sociology at Portland State University. Patrick Trent Greiner is assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. The climate crisis is proving to be… READ MORE