Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_2
Cheng Enfu, Li Jing
{"title":"Changes in U.S. Grand Strategy in the Indo-Pacific and China's Countermeasures","authors":"Cheng Enfu, Li Jing","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_2","url":null,"abstract":"Cheng Enfu and Li Jing survey the current economic, diplomatic, and security status quo between China and the United States, with an eye toward future policy decisions that could help strengthen China's position as a bulwark against the imperial hegemon.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"39 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141693722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_4
Tim Beal
{"title":"The Korean Linchpin","authors":"Tim Beal","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_4","url":null,"abstract":"Tim Beal dives into the critical role that the Korean Peninsula plays in U.S. strategy for maintaining power in the Indo-Pacific. The United States, he concludes, has long used its position on the peninsula to advance U.S. interests in the Pacific theater, aiming its most recent efforts against the rise of China and Russia.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"268 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141692225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_3
-. Qiao Collective
{"title":"Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective","authors":"-. Qiao Collective","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_3","url":null,"abstract":"\"In the Western imagination,\" the Qiao Collective writes, \"Taiwan exists as little more than a staging ground for ideological war with the People's Republic of China.\" However, this not only obscures the deep historical and cultural ties between Taiwan and the mainland, but functions as a justification for U.S. imperial intervention in the South China Sea.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"24 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141699703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_1
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark
{"title":"Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction","authors":"John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_1","url":null,"abstract":"John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark introduce this summer's special issue on \"Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific,\" exploring how the super-region came to be conceptualized among geopolitical strategists and its present-day role in U.S military strategy. \"The United States,\" they write, \"facing the demise of its global hegemonic imperialism, is not only preparing for a Third World War; it is actively provoking it.\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141695938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_5
Dae-Han Song
{"title":"Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand","authors":"Dae-Han Song","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_5","url":null,"abstract":"In this forcefully argued piece, Dae-Han Song presents an overview of the past few decades of U.S. policy on the Korean Peninsula and its continued refusal to engage meaningfully with any peace process between the artificially separated North and South. The article ends with a series of demands that look toward a future of peace on the peninsula.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_0
-. Editors
{"title":"Notes from the Editors, July-August 2024","authors":"-. Editors","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_0","url":null,"abstract":"buy this issue\u0000While Israel's horrific assaults on the people of Gaza continue, the voices against the U.S. support for the Zionist state grow ever-louder. This spring, the fight spilled onto college campuses. In this month's \"Notes,\" MR editors take the long view, starting with the Free Speech Movement over half a century ago.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"243 2‐8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141692413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_7
Julie De los Reyes, Jewellord Nem Singh
{"title":"Net-Zero and the China Challenge","authors":"Julie De los Reyes, Jewellord Nem Singh","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_7","url":null,"abstract":"As the world hurtles toward planetary catastrophe, driven in large part by the unchecked burning of fossil fuels in the Global North, China has emerged as a leader in renewable energy. This dynamic, Julie de los Reyes and Jewellord Nem Singh contend, mirrors China's ascendance in many sectors, revealing \"the glaring failure of the liberal international order to address pressing social and environmental issues.\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_6
Iqra Anugrah
{"title":"When the Ruling-Class Parties Harden","authors":"Iqra Anugrah","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-03-2024-07_6","url":null,"abstract":"Iqra Angurah elucidates the strategic role in the Indo-Pacific in the context of the New Cold War and, in particular, the country's close ties to the forces of multinational capital and Western imperialism. The alignment of the Global North and local elites underscores the need for a popular, socialist, and anti-imperialist movement among the Indonesian working class.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141713953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_0
-. Editors
{"title":"Notes from the Editors, June 2024","authors":"-. Editors","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_0","url":null,"abstract":"buy this issueIn this month's \"Notes from the Editors,\" the editors confront the myth of Marx's purported early Prometheanism and later rejection of the growth of productive forces altogether, favoring a \"no-growth path to communism.\" This ahistorical interpretation has engendered further critique of ecosocialism and degrowth on the part of self-identified productivist writers, who attempt incorrectly to paint degrowth as a Malthusian project, rather than a realistic effort to live within Earth's planetary capacities.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"59 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141274774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_3
Vijay Prashad, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
{"title":"The Actuality of Red Africa","authors":"Vijay Prashad, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_3","url":null,"abstract":"What is \"Red Africa\"? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023), Vijay Prashad and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog illuminate the potential for a reinvigorated socialist politics in Africa. In turning away from Afropessimism and Decolonial Studies, the authors catalog the on-the-ground realities at play in pan-African and Marxist social movements today.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141278028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}