• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • MR (Castilian)
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Mastadon
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Alice & Staughton Lynd

    Our kind of Marxist: an interview with Staughton Lynd

    Staughton Lynd and Jane Slaughter

    In my opinion, American capitalism no longer has any use for, let’s say, 40 percent of the population. These are the descendants of folks who were brought over here in one way or another during the period of capital accumulation. They’re now superfluous human beings.

  • Can Worker-Owners Run a Big Factory?  How Mexican Tire Workers Won Ownership of Their Plant With a Three-Year Strike and Are Now Running It Themselves

    Jane Slaughter

    Part 1: Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike “If the owners don’t want it, let’s run it ourselves.”  When a factory closes, the idea of turning it into a worker-owned co-operative sometimes comes up — and usually dies. The hurdles to buying a plant, even a failing plant, are huge, and […]

  • Restructure the Big 3, But Not with Bankruptcy

    Jane Slaughter

    MRZine Editor’s Introduction The crisis in which we find ourselves is not a crisis of the capitalist class, much less a crisis of the capitalist mode of production.  Nor is it even a crisis of neoliberalism.   It’s a crisis of the working class, plain and simple.  What’s in store for us, especially in the […]

Also By Jane Slaughter in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Teamster Reform Movement Survives Carey’s Debacle April 01, 1998
  • Our Kind of Marxist: An Interview With Staughton Lynd April 01, 1994

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

Lost & Found

  • Whither China?
    Harry Magdoff Isabel Crook and Harry Magdoff.

    An Exchange from 2002–⁠03

Trending

Popular (last 30 days)

RSS MR Press News

  • NEW! Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project by Chris Gilbert (Excerpts) October 4, 2023
  • NEW! The War Against the Commons by Ian Angus (Excerpts) September 19, 2023
  • Novel as biography (Radek reviewed in ‘Against the Current’) September 19, 2023
  • “A GOOD history book makes you think about the present” (The War Against the Commons reviewed by ‘Morning Star’) September 10, 2023
  • NEW!The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis by Steve Batterson (Excerpts) August 21, 2023

RSS Climate & Capitalism

  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2023 October 2, 2023
  • Carbon offsets don’t work, and that’s not news October 1, 2023
  • Waterborne poison from metal mines affects over 23 million people September 26, 2023
  • Degrowth and ecosocialism – a reply September 26, 2023
  • The Earth System has passed six of nine planetary boundaries September 15, 2023

 

RSS Monthly Review

  • October 2023 (Volume 75, Number 6) October 1, 2023 The Editors
  • Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization October 1, 2023 John Bellamy Foster
  • China’s Health and Health Care in the “New Era” October 1, 2023 Wei Zhang
  • Relative Pauperization and Involution in Contemporary China: A Survey of Jingzhou City October 1, 2023 Alex Witherspoon
  • Unequal Value Transfer from Mexico to the United States October 1, 2023 Mateo Crossa

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

Monthly Review Foundation
134 W 29TH ST STE 706
New York NY 10001-5304

Tel: 212-691-2555