Marxism and the History of Philosophy
October 1, 2025
Article Subjects and Geography: History
September 2025 (Volume 77, Number 4)
September 1, 2025
The Necessity of a Universal Project
March 1, 2025
In this excerpt from Ellen Meiksins Wood’s In Defense of History, Wood appraises the state of postmodern thought in the late twentieth century. “Today’s postmodernism,” Wood writes, “for all of its apparently defeatist pessimism, is still rooted in the ‘Golden Age of Capitalism.’ It’s time to leave that legacy behind and face today’s realities.”
Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory
February 1, 2025
Over the last quarter century—and especially since the beginning of Israel’s latest genocidal incursion into Palestine in October 2023—the term “settler colonialism” has proliferated in academic and popular discourse. In February’s “Review of the Month,” John Bellamy Foster connects readers to thinkers from around the globe and across time to illustrate the phenomenon of settler colonialism as a dimension of imperialism, and thus capitalism, driven by a rapacious extractivism that threatens the whole of humanity.
Empire and Popular Arts: A Note on Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States”
January 1, 2025
This month, we at MR had the great pleasure of publishing this note on Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation, written by Dylan Davis and Paul Buhle, with illustrations from the book by illustrator Paul Peart-Smith.