October 1, 2022
New York City is facing a crisis in its urban ecosystem. As wealthy developers and real estate mega-projects rupture the connections between people and the social and spatial webs making up the city's once-rich undergrowth, how can city-dwellers nurture and restore their metropolitan habitat?
October 1, 2022
There is hardly any theme in Karl Marx's theoretical corpus that has garnered as much traction as his theory of fetishism. Ever since Marx introduced the term into his critique of political economy in Capital, fetishism became a field of theoretical force. While much ink has been spilled on the specific content and theoretical scope of fetishism in Capital, young Marx's initial exploration of the term has rarely enjoyed critical attention.
October 1, 2022
Monthly Review was started in 1949 and is now in its forty-fourth year of publication, so you could say that MR's existence is pretty much coterminous with the second half of the twentieth century. What have been the most important characteristics of this half century?
September 1, 2022
More than twenty years after the publication of John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology (2000), ecosocialist scholars continue to explore the evolution of Marx's ecological thinking, from the Greek atomists to his later work on ethnology.
September 1, 2022
John Bellamy Foster's recent work, The Return of Nature, makes a strong case that Marxism's central, materialist conception of nature and history makes it the best possible theoretical basis for radical ecological scholarship.
September 1, 2022
Recent scholarship suggests that the widespread perception of Soviet states as uniquely ecologically disastrous is, at best, exaggerated, and that these environmental legacies must be re-examined.
July 1, 2022
Between 1949 and 1980, over a hundred articles in Monthly Review dealt with the Soviet Union directly, with many more addressing it indirectly. But, after 1993, treatments of post-Soviet Russia in the magazine largely ceased.
July 1, 2022
Time is running out for humanity to avoid a catastrophic planetary tipping point. Widespread mass mobilizations of populations worldwide must fight to bring about revolutionary societal changes and dismantle neoliberal monopoly capitalism, with its reliance on extractive exploitation of our planet's resources and communities.
July 1, 2022
A major deficiency of the growth-obsessed model driving global neoliberal economic policy is its lack of understanding on the Earth System on which it—and indeed, all life on Earth—relies.
July 1, 2022
Contradicting previous liberal notions of an "end of history," humanity is now facing unprecedented threats to our species' survival, but an environmental proletariat to combat them is emerging.
