MONTHLY REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 1. 2025

September 2025

buy this issue In order to understand the crisis of the imperialist world system in the twenty-first century, ” MR editors write in this month’s “Notes from the Editors, ” “it is crucial to see this in…

Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

Jayati Ghosh illuminates how capitalism has exacerbated inequality not only due to market forces, but as a result of how wealthy countries and firms based within them have tilted the scales toward…

The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear

This article will be released in full online September 8, 2025.

Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U. S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti

This article will be released in full online September 15, 2025.

Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times

This article will be released in full online September 22, 2025.

Black Scare in California: Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s

This article will be released in full online September 29, 2025. Joel Wendland-Liu reviews Armed Struggle?

Freedom and Economics

This article will be released in full online September 29, 2025. “Assume a ship under the command of a mad captain headed for certain shipwreck. What would freedom mean to the people on board?

July-August 2025

buy this issue This month’s “Notes from the Editors” discusses the accelerating progress of China toward sustainability.

A Special Issue on Communes in Socialist Construction

Inspired by the Venezuelan project of building socialism via the commune, this special issue looks at attempts to use communal models in socialist projects in a range of different contexts…

Venezuela’s Communal Project

Ángel Prado, a founder of El Maizal Commune and Minister of Communes since 2024, discusses Venezuela’s communal project as both a response to urgent material needs and a long-term strategy for…

Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism: The Marxist Approach

This article will be released in full online July 7, 2025. Chris Gilbert proposes to answer the question: When is a socialist commune anti-imperialist?

The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

This article will be released in full online July 14, 2025.

Marx and Communal Society

This article will be released in full online July 21, 2025.

Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish

This article will be released in full online July 28, 2025. Brian M.