Monthly ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_5
M. Piercy
{"title":"Who owns this 'country'?","authors":"M. Piercy","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_5","url":null,"abstract":"A new poem by Marge Piercy.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140756100","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_1
John Bellamy Foster
{"title":"Extractivism in the Anthropocene","authors":"John Bellamy Foster","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_1","url":null,"abstract":"This month's Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the idea of extractivism, a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth's resources since the mid-twentieth century, Foster notes, threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"408 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791388","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_2
Matthew Sharpe
{"title":"On the Misery of Left Nietzscheanism, or Philosophy as Irrationalist Ideology","authors":"Matthew Sharpe","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_2","url":null,"abstract":"Matthew Sharpe discusses Aymeric Monville's Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche (The Misery of Left Nietzscheanism), an exploration of how Nietzsche's popularity on the left co-opts truly radical energy in favor of authoritarianism and elitism. \"If Monville is right,\" Sharpe concludes, \"Nietzcheanism has acted as a kind of ideological 'useful idiot.'\"","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"412 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140758171","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_0
-. Editors
{"title":"Notes from the Editors, April 2024","authors":"-. Editors","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_0","url":null,"abstract":"buy this issueIn a December 2023 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Richard Haass, former special assistant to H. W. Bush, declared that the world has descended into a \"new world disorder,\" lamenting the long-lost dream of unending U.S. hegemony. This month's \"Notes from the Editors\" reflects on not only Haass's recent statements, but his longstanding advocacy of an \"Imperial America\" designed to ensure U.S. domination on the world stage.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"80 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140792974","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_3
Cai Chao
{"title":"Old Age but No Rest","authors":"Cai Chao","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_3","url":null,"abstract":"As populations worldwide grow older, politicians are clamoring to raise the retirement age, thus extending people's working lives at their own expense. Using the lens of political economy, Cai Chao examines the false narratives behind capitalists' claims that delayed retirement is necessary to maintain society's productive capacity, and proposes solutions to promote human development at all life stages.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140789617","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_7
Torkil Lauesen
{"title":"The Political Economy of Migration","authors":"Torkil Lauesen","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_7","url":null,"abstract":"In this review of Immanuel Ness's Migration as Economic Imperialism, Torkil Lauesen illuminates the links between the migration of labor to theories of equal exchange, which have traditionally focused on international trade. These connections, Lauesen writes, relate to transfer of labor power from the periphery to the core, and the concomitant exploitation of vulnerable workers from the Global South.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"169 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763734","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_4
M. G. Ceddia, Jacopo Nicola Bergamo
{"title":"The Necessity of System Change","authors":"M. G. Ceddia, Jacopo Nicola Bergamo","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-11-2024-04_4","url":null,"abstract":"In a world of convergent crises, leading voices have called for radical changes to food, financial, and energy systems. However, these fail to account for a deeper systemic crisis: unfettered and accelerating of capital accumulation. In this article, M. Graziano Ceddia and Jacopo Nicola Bergamo provide a more comprehensive narrative, one which emphasizes capital as a social relation—and the potential of the environmental proletariat to dismantle its dominance.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"388 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140762668","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_5
Paul Burkett
{"title":"Eleven Theses on Music","authors":"Paul Burkett","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_5","url":null,"abstract":"This lyrical vignette from the recently departed Paul Burkett is the author's final, posthumously published piece for Monthly Review. In it, the eminent ecological economist and jazz musician muses on the nature of creativity, technology, and the corporatization of music—and the struggle to decommodify it, freeing musicians and their craft from the confines of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":" 662","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140092588","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_4
Christian Noakes
{"title":"Do It Yourself, Brother","authors":"Christian Noakes","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_4","url":null,"abstract":"Christian Noakes tells the story of the struggle to liberate jazz from the exploitative, white-controlled music industry in 1950s and beyond. Recounting the seminal events of the movement and backlash from white civil society, Noakes reveals a legacy of Black cultural autonomy and resistance led by such jazz legends as Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Bill Dixon, and others.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"27 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140084364","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_1
Marnie Holborow
{"title":"Engels for Our Times","authors":"Marnie Holborow","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-10-2024-03_1","url":null,"abstract":"\"It is surprising,\" Marnie Holborow writes, \"how often in Marxist accounts of women's oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked.\" In responding to this gap in analysis, Holborow examines his influential work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, finding his observations on gender roles and social reproduction under capitalism—and their expressions based on class—are not only astute for Engels's time, but very much for ours as well.","PeriodicalId":503049,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140087285","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}