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
Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
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
It’s Still Slavery by Another Name
May 1, 2020
Michael D. Yates is the editorial director of Monthly Review Press, a labor educator, and the author of numerous books, including Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review… 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
Health Care for Profit (Not Health): A Sick System
April 1, 2020
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Howard Waitzkin and the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2020
March 1, 2020
Capitalism, with its history of alienation, exploitation, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia, along with its attempted commodification of everything in existence, has long robbed tens of millions of people in the… READ MORE
A Theory of Mental Health and Monopoly Capitalism
March 1, 2020
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. As an exposition of… READ MORE
The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Mental Health
March 1, 2020
When Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order was published by Monthly Review Press in 1966, two of the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2020
February 1, 2020
Economists generally expect wages to rise significantly at the peak of the business cycle. The fact that this is not happening today is seen as something of a paradox. According… READ MORE
Sex and Socialism
February 1, 2020
Ann Snitow died on August 10, 2019. In her memory, we are reprinting here an excerpt from the introduction to Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE