The Ecological State
February 1, 2021
Erald Kolasi received his PhD in physics from George Mason University in 2016. The central problem of economics is scarcity, or at least that is how the story is told…. READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, November 2020
November 1, 2020
In this issue of Monthly Review, we are publishing two articles marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels: John Bellamy Foster’s “Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the… READ MORE
Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
November 1, 2020
The author would like to thank Fred Magdoff for his help at several points in this article. In “The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”… READ MORE
Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics
November 1, 2020
Kaan Kangal is an associate professor of philosophy at Nanjing University, specializing in dialectics, hermeneutics, metaphysics, and Marx-Engels research. His work on Marx’s Bonn Notebooks won the 2019 David Riazanov… READ MORE
Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy
January 1, 2020
� Andrey Maidansky is a professor of philosophy at the University of Belgorod, Russia. He has published, in Russian, many books and articles on Baruch Spinoza, Marxism, and history of… READ MORE
On the Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics and the Theory of Knowledge of Materialism
January 1, 2020
This essay by Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov (1924–79), “On the Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics and the Theory of Knowledge of Materialism,” was published in his most widely known work, Dialectical… READ MORE
Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
December 1, 2019
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2019
November 1, 2019
Immanuel Wallerstein, the celebrated world-systems theorist and longtime contributor to Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press, died on August 31, 2019. Wallerstein first achieved international fame with the publication in… READ MORE
Endgame Marxism (and Urbanism)
November 1, 2019
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books, including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Magical Marxism (Pluto Press, 2011), and, most recently, The Amateur (Verso… READ MORE
Searching for Alternatives in Eastern Europe: Tamás Krausz Interviewed by Róbert Nárai
April 1, 2019
Tamás Krausz is professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He is the editor of Eszmélet and author of Reconstructing Lenin (Monthly Review Press, 2015), winner of the 2015… READ MORE