COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace COVID-19, the illness caused by coronaviru
Monthly Review
Hyman Minsky at 100: Was Minsky a Communist?
By Riccardo Bellofiore, (originally published by Monthly Review) In 1976, Guido Carli left the Bank of Italy, of whic
New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
New Book: Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
by Michael Heinrich. From Monthly Review Press: For over a century, Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism has been a cruc
Absolute Capitalism
By John Bellamy Foster. (originally posted here) The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote in 1864 that “the cleveres
New Book: Abolitionist Socialist Feminism – Radicalizing the Next Revolution
By Zillah Eisenstein. From Monthly Review Press: The world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the po
New Book: Voices of Latin America – Social Movements and the New Activism
Edited by Tom Gatehouse. From Monthly Review Press: These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democ
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-centur
A Black Feminist Statement
The Combahee River Collective Statement appeared as a movement document in April 1977. The final, definitive version
New Book: The Coming of the American Behemoth – The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940
By Michael Joseph Roberto. From Monthly Review Press Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fa
New Book: Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
By Michael E. Tigar. From Monthly Review Press: Lawyers confront mythologies in the context of their profession. But t
New book: Can the Working Class Change the World?
By Michael D. Yates. From Monthly Review Press: One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which wa
RIP, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the pioneering political economist Samir Amin has passed. May he Rest In Pow
New Book: The Russians Are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
by Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. From Monthly Review Press: Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire o
The Pharmaceutical Industry in Contemporary Capitalism
by Joel Lexchin, originally posted here The pharmaceutical industry has remained near or at the top of the list for prof
Invisible Exploitation – How Capital Extracts Value Beyond Wage Labor
by Eva Swidler, The Marxist analysis of work under capitalism has long been associated with a preoccupation with wage l
New Book: Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value
By Samir Amin. From Monthly Review Press: Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism
Socialist Register 2018: Rethinking Democracy
Edited by Gregory Albo and Leo Panitch, For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, lib