• The Smartest Man Ever Was a Socialist: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster
    The Smartest Man Ever Was a Socialist: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster

    WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Smartest Man Ever was a Socialist This interview and the following article were originally posted by A Public Affair on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison, Wisconsin. In the United States, Albert Einstein isn’t well known for his views on socialism. But in 1949, he wrote a salient essay for the […]

    The War Didn’t Ask What She Believed: Parnia Abbasi and the Silence That Followed
    The War Didn’t Ask What She Believed: Parnia Abbasi and the Silence That Followed

    In the early hours of Friday, June 13, 2025, as most of Tehran slept, an Israeli missile hit a residential apartment block in the Sattarkhan district. Among the dead was 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi, a poet, bank employee, and recent graduate, alongside her teenage brother and both parents. Hours earlier, she had made plans to meet […]

    The New Postcolonial Economics w/ Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)
    The New Postcolonial Economics w/ Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)

    Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art. Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. In our conversation, Kaboub outlines a new critical approach to postcolonial political economy, arguing that re-gaining fiscal agency is a crucial next step for postcolonial nations hoping to achieve social, economic, and environmental justice.

    The Restoration of the Monroe Doctrine and Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America
    The Restoration of the Monroe Doctrine and Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America

    1. The Revival of the Big Stick and the Monroe Doctrine Since Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States, the world has watched in shock as US foreign policy has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive, raising deep concerns about the future of international politics. These concerns stem not only from the record of […]

    The Experience of Nanjie Village and the Possibilities of Socialist Development in Contemporary China: Successes of the Collective Economy under Reform and Opening-Up
    The Experience of Nanjie Village and the Possibilities of Socialist Development in Contemporary China: Successes of the Collective Economy under Reform and Opening-Up

    With the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy, the People’s Republic of China entered a new historical period in its development. Starting in 1978, the country began to prioritize a development model with characteristics quite distinct from those prevailing during the previous period (1949–78). From then on, China began to emphasize the growth of […]

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