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Frederick Engels: The First Marxist?
In the history of Marxism since Karl Marx’s death, Frederick Engels has cut a controversial figure across the centuries. Through an examination of their correspondence and collaborations, McFarlane...
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New! The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making...
A unique historical account of poor peoples’ self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of their lands and labor For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably...
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A Nation of Guns
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reviews Bloodbath Nation, a poignant exploration of the painful, studiously ignored truths about gun culture in the U.S. To grapple with the epidemic of gun violence, she writes,...
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Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of...
Following the work of scientist and Sinologist Joseph Needham, this talk by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the conceptual linkages between the ancient Greek and Chinese thought and modern dialectical...
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NEW! Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left
Offers vivid first hand accounts of encounters with fellow socialists following the fall of the Soviet Union Most westerners glimpsed the breakup of the Soviet Union at a great distance, through a...
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December 2023 (Volume 75, Number 7)
buy this issue This month, the editors discuss the U.S. threat of a “new Opium War against China” found in the pages of the Air Force’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs. In addition, MR affirms its...
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Judge Irving Kaufman, the Liberal Establishment, and the Rosenberg Case
Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, examines a recent biography of Irving R. Kaufman, the judge who sentenced the Rosenbergs to death. Using his own deep research into his parents’...
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The Myth of Black Capitalism: New Edition
Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric— and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid...
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To Struggle!: A Review of Marcello Musto’s ‘The Last Years of Karl Marx’
Mauricio Betancourt reviews Marcello Musto’s The Last Years of Karl Marx. In the book, Betancourt finds a detailed portrait of Marx’s rarely examined later years, revealing a man who, despite personal...
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Eleven Theses on Music
This article will be released in full online March 25, 2023. This lyrical vignette from the recently departed Paul Burkett is the author’s final, posthumously published piece for Monthly Review. In...
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Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing
This article will be released in full online March 18, 2023. Christian Noakes tells the story of the struggle to liberate jazz from the exploitative, white-controlled music industry in 1950s and...
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Industrial Agriculture: Lessons from North Korea
According to most Western commentators, North Korea is an “enigma” plagued by “irrational” leadership, poverty, and pervasive food shortages. Zhun Xu charts the evolution of North Korean industrial...
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On the Misery of Left Nietzscheanism, or Philosophy as Irrationalist Ideology
Matthew Sharpe discusses Aymeric Monville’s Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche (The Misery of Left Nietzscheanism), an exploration of how Nietzsche’s popularity on the left co-opts truly radical energy...
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