Montly Review

• New! Chris dePloeg’s “The Exterminating Empire”

  APPEARANCES: Just hours after its release, the first interview with Chris De Ploeg has already gone live! Adnan Husain‘s Office Hours 39 Taking the ongoing genocide in Palestine as a... READ MORE

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• New: “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”, by August Nimtz

  The latest: "Nimtz’ insightful review has languished for forty years in even more obscurity than Robinson’s book, until it has now been reprinted..."

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• New: Matthew Stanley’s “The Ragged Edge of Freedom”

  The latest, from Paul Buhle: "Abolitionists and social reformers of all kinds, with a wide Yankee following augmented by many recent German immigrants, sought to take things beyond the uneasy accommodation of white populations to each other across existing political lines. In Wisconsin and in Chicago most notably, these would include “Abe’s Boys” enrolling in the army of the Union. Not so in the Southern Illinois, two hours’ drive from my hometown. The whites who immigrated northward from the near South, largely uneducated and lacking skills, came to be considered almost a species in themselves...."

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• “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

  The latest: Einstein's perspective links alienation and nuclear annihilation, capitalism to the devastating possibility of omnicide -- the destruction of all human life on earth. As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary....

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• Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?

  In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among younger readers...

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