Montly Review

• April 25th: Ecosocialism Forum to host Ian Angus, author of “Metabolic Rifts” (Available now!)

  On Saturday April 25, starting at 11:00am EST/4:00 pm GMT Ian Angus will introduce his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth’s System, in an event cosponsored with,... READ MORE

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• In the public eye: Andy Merrifield

  "Roses for Gramsci," excerpted: '“The seeds have been very slow in pushing up small sprouts,” he tells Tatiana, again maybe referring to himself and to the life of a Marxist radical; “an entire series obstinately insists on living an underground life.” Each day, Gramsci says, he’s seized by the temptation to pull at them a little, making them grow a little faster.....'

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• In the public eye: Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

  The latest: 'Gabriel Rockhill —filósofo, profesor, investigador y escritor de origen estadounidense— publicó recientemente un libro que ha captado el interés de muchos. Su título ya deja entrever la complejidad de la trama: “¿Quién pagó a los músicos del marxismo occidental?”....'

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• In the public eye: Contributors to “A Land With A People”

  The latest from Mohammed Mhawish: "We have to ask ourselves: Do we know Hind? Of course we’ve heard her voice, or maybe have seen the building someone renamed after her at Columbia in her honor — which matters, and which she would have deserved, and which is still not the same as knowing her. But do we know her laughter, the way she moved through a room, what she was afraid of, what she loved, the world she was building inside herself at six years old? We learn none of it from the film. We learn it, if we learn it at all, from the interviews her mother gave on the side, on other people’s platforms. The film that claims her voice does not make space for her life."

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• In the public eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

  The latest: NYC/Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto convened a show curated by Gabriel Orozco, featuring Ariel Schlesinger of Forensic Architecture, Minerva Cuevas, Petrit Halilaj, Robert Longo, Roman Ondak, Wilfredo Prieto, Zoe Leonard, and special guests. The prompt to which the artists responded, Einstein's article, "Why Socialism?" The show was listed as a "Must See" in ARTFORUM magazine. Kurimanzutto excerpted the article in full, and e-flux Agenda excerpted the same portion of the article that MRP excerpted in an animated short we produced, visible herein...

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