Monthly Review

The great indifference

2021-11-01T00:56:23-04:00

A new poem by Marge Piercy.

Keeping the Challenges Before Us: The Reissuing of 'Reluctant Reformers' and Its Contemporary Implications

2021-11-01T00:52:04-04:00

The reissuing of Reluctant Reformers can inform our attempts to grapple with how the unity of the oppressed can be forged in such a way that the interests of the historically marginalized do not continue to get…well, marginalized.

Disney, Salò, and Pasolini's Inconsumable Art

2021-11-01T00:49:46-04:00

The increasing consolidation of the modern entertainment industry by a small clique of multinational streaming giants is the next step in the "standardization of style" in mass-consumed art. The work of Pier Paolo Pasolini can help remind us of what we're missing.

The Present in History, 2021

2021-11-01T00:47:43-04:00

The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a Marxist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.

World Development under Monopoly Capitalism

2021-11-01T00:43:33-04:00

As the internationalization of monopoly capital grows, particularly through the domination of global value chains, the worldwide rate of exploitation and degree of monopoly increase as well.

The Planetary Rift

2021-11-01T00:33:57-04:00

The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, giving them at most only marginal attention—was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.

Notes from the Editors, November 2021

2021-11-01T00:30:59-04:00

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There is an urgent need to transcend the deep chasm in historical materialism, extending back to the 1920s, between the Western Marxist philosophical tradition and the Marxism of the Second and Third Internationals. This division has been closely associated with so-called Western Marxism’s rejection of the dialectics of nature.

Herd impunity?

2021-10-01T03:50:01-04:00

A new poem by Black Agenda Report poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner.

The legacy

2021-10-01T03:48:00-04:00

A new poem by Marge Piercy.

The Synthesizing Impulse: J. B. S. Haldane

2021-10-01T03:45:52-04:00

By any standards, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964) was a fascinating man. An eminent scientist, prolific writer and speaker, fiery political activist, and all-round colorful character, he has been the subject of several full-length biographies and multiple biographical sketches.