Notes from the Editors, October 2020
October 1, 2020
This special issue of Monthly Review, “China 2020,” is the product of a long period of cooperation with critical Chinese Marxist scholars. This has resulted in an extensive series of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Marxism
Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China: Survival Bricolage of Zhoujiazhuang and Puhan Rural Community
October 1, 2020
Lau Kin Chi is program coordinator for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Sit Tsui… READ MORE
Revisiting Collectivism and Rural Governance in China: The Singularity of the Zhoujiazhuang People’s Commune
October 1, 2020
Lau Kin Chi is program coordinator for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China. She… READ MORE
Negotiating Debt: The Making of Puhan Rural Community in North China
October 1, 2020
Introduction “The banks and corporations grow by exploiting the people’s property.” —Zhang Hongshu Sit Tsui is an associate professor of Southwest University in Chongqing, China. Yan Xiaohui is a researcher… READ MORE
A Violent Guatemala
September 1, 2020
Jane Duran teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. � Among ethnic disasters of the past few decades, few can match in… READ MORE
I wake every day to this
September 1, 2020
Cruelty seems to win votes.�The shouter is heard. The whisperer�shot to silence. Words turn�to worms and wriggle in our food. � We live in times dangerous�to butterflies, polar bears and… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2020
July 1, 2020
As this special issue of Monthly Review on racial capitalism goes to the printer, the entire United States has been upended by more than a week of protests and riots,… READ MORE
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
July 1, 2020
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an assistant professor of Africana Studies and political science at Carleton College. In 2020–21, she will serve as the Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Race and Capitalism… READ MORE
Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Marxism
July 1, 2020
This article is a reprint of Paul M. Sweezy, foreword in Oliver C. Cox, Race, Class, and the World System, ed. Herbert M. Hunter and Sameer Y. Abraham (New York:… READ MORE