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Cooperation with China Is Pragmatism, Not “Cozying Up”Cooperation with China Is Pragmatism, Not “Cozying Up”In a recent editorial, the Washington Post characterized Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s diplomatic mission to Beijing as a “shortsighted” attempt to “troll” President Donald Trump. The critique suggests that Canada is blurring the line between pragmatism and naiveté, trading long-term security for a “show” of strategic partnership with a “dictator.” According to this view, […]
Critical Realism and Human–Nature Relations: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterCritical Realism and Human–Nature Relations: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterMonthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Andreas Vavvos in conjunction with a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism, edited by Vavvos, Leigh Price, and Jan Zumoberhaus. A video of the conversation is below.
Notes From The Editors: February 2026 (Volume 77, Number 8)Notes From The Editors: February 2026 (Volume 77, Number 8)On October 21, 2025, four British newspapers headlined the same story, claiming that a Cambridge study had shown that Frederick Engels was grossly mistaken on the class divisions in Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England, published in 1845.
War, Imperial Decline and the Communal Horizon: A Conversation with Robert LongaWar, Imperial Decline and the Communal Horizon: A Conversation with Robert LongaRobert Longa is a founding member of the Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, a Venezuelan grassroots organization promoting communal construction. Based in Caracas’ 23 de Enero barrio, Longa has played a central role in building El Panal Commune and in advancing a strategic vision of communal power as the backbone of the Bolivarian Revolution. This conversation […]
Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus ValueDividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus ValueMichael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]
