MONTHLY REVIEW

MAY 1. 2025

May 2025

buy this issue In the Notes from the Editors, MR editors dissect the true meaning behind the right-wing obsession with “Cultural Marxism” and its use to justify the right-wing takeover of the…

The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime

John Bellamy Foster presents a rogue’s gallery of the fascist ideologues insidiously pushing the MAGA agenda, from the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 to neo-Nazi YouTubers and cultural…

Neoliberalism and Neofascism

As we mourn the loss of prolific MR author and media advocate Robert W.

Decolonization and Its Discontents

This article will be released in full online May 12, 2025.

China’s “Triple Revolution Theory” and Marxist Analysis

This article will be released in full online May 19, 2025.

April 2025

buy this issue This month, MR editors take on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, a pale imitation of the five authentic Nobel Prizes that is aimed at…

The U. S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime

John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U. S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense.

Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics

Yumeng Liu takes a deep dive into the history of Laos, the only socialist nation among the Theravāda Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia, examining how the country has developed its own particular…

The Danger of Fascism in the United States: A View from the 1950s

“The Big Business-military coalition in the United States, ” Paul A. Baran wrote in this prescient reprise from 1952, “assumes all of the functions of a fascist regime….

March 2025

buy this issue The editors analyze recent shift in mainstream discourse away from the goal of energy transition toward capitalist friendly policies that allow corporations to receive large subsidies…

Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue

John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill assess the history and influence of Western Marxism, defined not geographically, but by a rejection of the Marxism developed in the Soviet Union…

The Necessity of a Universal Project

In this excerpt from Ellen Meiksins Wood’s In Defense of History, Wood appraises the state of postmodern thought in the late twentieth century.