The great insomnia
October 1, 2025
Article Subjects and Geography: State Repression
December 2024 (Volume 76, Number 7)
December 1, 2024
As the atrocities visited by Israel upon the Palestinian people continue to multiply, this month’s “Notes from the Editors is a forceful condemnation of not only the Zionist entity, but the entire U.S.-led neoliberal world order. Israel’s relentless pursuit of genocide in Palestine “has destroyed any pretense of a commitment to universal human rights on the part of the West,” undeniably revealing “imperialism and settler colonialism in their most brutal forms” as the entire world watches.
The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism
December 1, 2024
Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant’s timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism?
May 2024 (Volume 76, Number 1)
May 1, 2024
The MR editors revisit the words of Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy, writing in the twenty-fifth-year anniversary issue. Writing on the innate contradictions plaguing the capitalist system, the editors in 1974 noted that the ecological limitations of capital accumulation was “unsolvable” under capitalism, thus setting the stage for the magazine’s continued exploration of ecosocialism as humanity’s future.
Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
May 1, 2024
For our seventy-fifth anniversary issue, John Bellamy Foster revisits the legacy of Albert Einstein and his deep connections to Monthly Review, including his authorship of the article “Why Socialism?,” published in our first-ever issue in May 1949. Through historical documents and the famed physicist’s own words, Foster rediscovers Einstein’s commitment to socialism in both word and deed, and his collegial ties to MR‘s founding editors.
The Specter of ‘Knowledge as Commons’
March 1, 2024
Sam Popowich is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. On October 3, 2023, in an egregious violation of press freedom, the founder of the progressive Indian media company… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2024
February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE