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
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
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
Race Is About More Than Discrimination: Racial Capitalism, the Settler State, and the Challenges Facing Organized Labor in the United States
July 1, 2020
Bill Fletcher Jr. is the executive editor of globalafricanworker.com, a former president of TransAfrica Forum, and a longtime leftist trade unionist and writer. Though almost a cliché, it is worth… READ MORE
Colonialism, Migration, Pandemic: The Immutable Evidence that Capitalism Is Racist and Misogynist
July 1, 2020
Lilia D. Monzó is an associate professor of education in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. She is the author of A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of… 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
Notes from the Editors, June 2020
June 1, 2020
As we write these notes, the price on the futures contract for West Texas crude oil expiring for May delivery fell to a negative $37.63 a barrel, constituting the biggest… READ MORE
COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism: Commodity Chains and Ecological-Epidemiological-Economic Crises
June 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism… READ MORE
German Deunification: Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, and the Liberal Roots of German Neofascism
June 1, 2020
Ingar Solty is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books, including Auf… READ MORE
The good-for-business wars
June 1, 2020
Buying [we’re called consumers: what do�we really consume?] things we don’t need�with money we don’t have. Credit cards�weren’t invented for our convenience. � That’s the American Way troops are sent�to… READ MORE
Culling the Herd
June 1, 2020
A rightwing official announced�two or three percent deaths�is acceptable—to him. What�of the Black mother of three�drowning of phlegm in her lungs? � Tell the fireman who lacked�a mask how expendable… READ MORE