Frederick Engels: The First Marxist?
September 1, 2023
Bruce McFarlane1 completed this manuscript shortly before his death in 2022, at age 86. McFarlane was a political economist who taught for many years at the University of Adelaide and… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: History
Planning Degrowth: The Necessity, History, and Challenges
July 1, 2023
Kent Klitgaard is professor emeritus of economics and sustainability at Wells College in Aurora, New York. Unplanned degrowth can be a disaster for those living in a capitalist system, especially… READ MORE
Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism
June 1, 2023
This article is based on the Engels Memorial Lecture presented to the Marx Memorial Library in London, England, on November 30, 2022. It is revised here, including the addition of… READ MORE
The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback
June 1, 2023
Gabriel Rockhill is the executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. The author would like to express his… READ MORE
Introduction to the New Edition of ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’
May 1, 2023
Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic with a special interest in U.S. imperialism, mainly with respect to Asia. He is the author of North Korea: The Struggle Against… READ MORE
John J. Simon: Socialist Editor, Writer, and Broadcaster
April 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. John Mage is an officer and director of the Monthly Review Foundation… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2023
March 1, 2023
In September 2022, the journal Foreign Policy, one of the most influential establishment outlets for the articulation of the U.S. imperial grand strategy, published a column by C. Raja Mohan… READ MORE
The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism
March 1, 2023
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2023
February 1, 2023
It is now fairly common to refer to the rapidly escalating geopolitical conflict between the United States/NATO, on the one hand, and China and Russia, on the other, as the… READ MORE
The New Irrationalism
February 1, 2023
More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914–1945, represented by the First World War, the Great Depression, and Second World War, we are seeing a… READ MORE