Page Text: Urgently rethinking our relationship with the natural world: Where to start? (Listen to Foster interviewed on New Books Network)
Apr 11, 2022
The product of several decades of research, this is a book accessibly written but rigorously researched with footnotes meticulously collected for those looking for a jumping off point through various archives. It reveals a hidden history of the relationship between science and sociology, between economics and nature and gives us characters who were able to see the seeds we were sowing, but also an unyielding faith that it doesn’t have to be this way… | more…
A counter to denialist Marxism (“Value Chains” lauded by The Review of Radical Political Economics)
Apr 11, 2022
“Value Chains” should be read by anyone with an interest in the practicalities of offshoring, outsourcing, and supply chain management. It should also be required reading for those who fail to recognize actually existing imperialism. | more…
WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: BEYOND LEVIATHAN (Plus excerpts)
Apr 10, 2022
It is crucial to understand how radically Mészáros’s critique of the state, viewed in this way, differs from liberal theories of the state, as well as from more critical/social-democratic approaches struggling to operate within the parameters established by the hegemonic liberal- democratic theory…. | more…
Mar 21, 2022
…Stalin asked, “So you think my truth needs improvement?”
“The truth,” Radek replied, “can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of evidence can gain a great deal by new and better evidence…” | more…
Stay tuned to WATCH MR CONVERSATIONS: PANDEMIC POLARIZATIONS (Plus excerpts from the Socialist Register 2022)
Mar 14, 2022
With contributions from: Walden Bello, Bill Fletcher Jr., Virginia Fontes, Samir Gandesha, Ana Garcia, Jayati Ghosh, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, Sam Gindin, David Harvey, Rejane Hoeveler, Ilya Matveev, Simon Mohun, Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider, Ingar Solty, Samir Sonti, Hilary Wainwright, and Oleg Zhuravlev…. | more…
MR Classics: Nkrumah’s Consciencism, with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown (Plus excerpts)
Mar 12, 2022
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled “MR Classics,” starting with Kwame Nkrumah’s thought, the philosophy he called ‘Consciencism.” We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire. | more…
Opinion: From crisis to catastrophe (Horne on Ukraine, in ‘Black Agenda Report’)
Mar 02, 2022
With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945. Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now…. | more…
Listen and watch: Not Enough to Retire On (‘Against the Grain’ features Jim Russell’s new book)
Mar 02, 2022
The widespread shortfall in retirement income is the result of a bipartisan effort going back decades to move our savings away from traditional pensions to accounts like 401(k)s that enrich the financial services industry at our expense. | more…
EXCERPTS: INEQUALITY, CLASS AND ECONOMICS, by Eric Schutz
Mar 01, 2022
The economic expansion just prior to the pandemic seemed to justify optimism about inequality. But Covid-19 showed just how little grounds there were for optimism. The pandemic demonstrated how poorly prepared for such a crisis a society could be that fails to provide universal, high-quality health care to a significant proportion of its population, as the case and death rates in the United States have demonstrated… | more…
A 300-year excursion through the history of the global economy (‘International Affairs’ reviews the Patnaiks)
Feb 18, 2022
Patnaik and Patnaik unpick the realities of capitalism: First, as thriving on exogenous rather than endogenous stimuli––namely colonialism followed by state intervention after the Second World War––thus negating its capacity to be self-contained and perpetual; and second, leading to high unemployment through deindustrialization and land grabs for export crops and property accumulation which push petty producers and peasants into joblessness. | more…
Mészáros reading groups
Feb 18, 2022
March is the month to dig in to Mészáros. Join “Essential Discussions” with Irv Kurki, or The Marxist Education Project’s “Capital Studies Group” respectively focusing on ‘Beyond Leviathan’ and ‘The Necessity of Social Control.’ | more…