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