Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_2
Brian M. Napoletano
{"title":"Was Karl Marx a Degrowth Communist?","authors":"Brian M. Napoletano","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_2","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Napoletano considers the implications of recent work by Kohei Saito, in which Saito argues that Marx's thought progressed from early productivism to middle-stage ecosocialism, and finally to degrowth communism. Where Saito misses, Napoletano concludes, is in emphasizing Marx's supposed break between growth-oriented capitalism and degrowth-oriented communism, rather than emphasizing a human- and sustainability-oriented dialectical ecosocialism requiring a true social and political revolution.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141281397","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_4
Chris Gilbert
{"title":"The Dream of a Thing","authors":"Chris Gilbert","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_4","url":null,"abstract":"In a vividly drawn account of El Maizal Commune, Chris Gilbert provides readers with a window into the inner workings of a community refounded with an eye toward building a new \"alternative communal economy.\" The task, Gilbert finds, is not only one that is not only revolutionary, but liberating and creative, having the potential to collectively reimagine the social relations of a community.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"35 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141280187","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_1
John Bellamy Foster, Arman Spéth
{"title":"Ecosocialism and Degrowth","authors":"John Bellamy Foster, Arman Spéth","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_1","url":null,"abstract":"Originally published in the German journal Widerspruch, Arman Spéth interviews John Bellamy Foster about the growing interest in degrowth thought and the importance of incorporating democratic planning aimed at true equality into all levels of society. And what of the ecosocialist revolution? \"Opportunities,\" Foster says, \"are everywhere. Obstacles, largely a product of the present system, are also everywhere.… Nothing can or will remain the same. That is the very definition of a revolutionary situation.\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"82 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141278557","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_5
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
{"title":"Is Black Capitalism Still a Myth?","authors":"Earl Ofari Hutchinson","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-02-2024-06_5","url":null,"abstract":"In this reprint of the new introduction to The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson reflects on the relevance of his work more than fifty years after its initial publication. Even despite the promotion of wealthy Black individuals as model capitalists and COVID recovery schemes purported to help Black entrepreneurs, \"Little had changed except the desperation of countless numbers of near penniless, distressed Black small business owners.\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141280094","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_5
Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, R. McChesney
{"title":"Socialism—A Time to Retreat?","authors":"Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, R. McChesney","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_5","url":null,"abstract":"In this reprise from September 2000, Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Robert W. McChesney look forward to the future of Monthly Review in the twenty-first century: \"Despite mistakes, setbacks, and recognition that the road is long and arduous, we must not waver as we continue to study, educate, and be missionaries for the transcendence of the social system of capitalism and the development…of a society of equals.\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"244 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141039671","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_1
John Bellamy Foster
{"title":"Einstein's \"Why Socialism?\" and 'Monthly Review'","authors":"John Bellamy Foster","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_1","url":null,"abstract":"For our seventy-fifth anniversary issue, John Bellamy Foster revisits the legacy of Albert Einstein and his deep connections to Monthly Review, including his authorship of the article \"Why Socialism?,\" published in our first-ever issue in May 1949. Through historical documents and the famed physicist's own words, Foster rediscovers Einstein's commitment to socialism in both word and deed, and his collegial ties to MR's founding editors.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"101 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141037598","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_0
-. Editors
{"title":"Notes from the Editors, May 2024","authors":"-. Editors","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_0","url":null,"abstract":"buy this issueThe MR editors revisit the words of Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy, writing in the twenty-fifth-year anniversary issue. Writing on the innate contradictions plaguing the capitalist system, the editors in 1974 noted that the ecological limitations of capital accumulation was \"unsolvable\" under capitalism, thus setting the stage for the magazine's continued exploration of ecosocialism as humanity's future.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141037800","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_3
Hannah Cross
{"title":"Return of the Atlantic Route from West Africa to Europe","authors":"Hannah Cross","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_3","url":null,"abstract":"As dangerous trans-Atlantic crossings between Africa and Europe continue to rise, Hannah Cross examines the roots of the ongoing crisis. The discussion around migration, she notes, \"overlooks the imperial role of Europe and the United States over borders, migration regimes, regional (de-)integration, and national development projects within Africa.\" The solution, therefore, can only be found through genuine liberation and autonomy across the continent, rather than internationally imposed mechanisms benefitting the powerful in the Global North.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"62 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038841","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_4
David Barkin, Juan Santarcángelo
{"title":"The IMF and Class Struggle in Latin America","authors":"David Barkin, Juan Santarcángelo","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_4","url":null,"abstract":"The International Monetary Fund, part of the Bretton Woods Agreement that helped establish the current rules of the U.S.-dominated international capitalist system, claims to aim for a world of prosperity through so-called free trade. In Latin America, David Barkin and Juan Santarcángelo write, the IMF has contributed to the impoverishment of the working class and destruction of these countries' ecological legacies. But what does the future hold for the IMF in Latin America?","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"137 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141034265","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_2
Laurence H. Shoup
{"title":"The Council on Foreign Relations, the Israel Lobby, and the War on Gaza","authors":"Laurence H. Shoup","doi":"10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-01-2024-05_2","url":null,"abstract":"As dangerous trans-Atlantic crossings between Africa and Europe continue to rise, Hannah Cross examines the roots of the ongoing crisis. The discussion around migration, she notes, \"overlooks the imperial role of Europe and the United States over borders, migration regimes, regional (de-)integration, and national development projects within Africa.\" The solution, therefore, can only be found through genuine liberation and autonomy across the continent, rather than internationally imposed mechanisms benefitting the powerful in the Global North.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"21 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038224","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}