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  • | Climate devastation and fossil fuel profits | MR Online

    Connecting the dots between climate devastation and fossil fuel profits

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on September 26, 2022 by Sonali Kolhatkar (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2022)

    As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies.

  • | $2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet | MR Online

    $2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on July 18, 2022 by Murad Qureshi (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2022)

    The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.

  • | The march about to start with Peoples Summit banner along with a banner of solidarity with Venezuela Photo Rick Sterling | MR Online

    A tale of two summits

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on June 20, 2022 by Rick Sterling (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jun 22, 2022)

    Last week (June 8-10) there were two summits in Los Angeles, California: the Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. State Department and the Peoples Summit hosted by U.S. and international activist organizations. The two summits were held in the same city at the same time but could not be otherwise more different. ​

  • | 6172022 Jacobinism and the labour theory of value By Paul Cockshott | MR Online

    Jacobinism and the labour theory of value

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on June 16, 2022 by ​​Paul Cockshott (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2022)

    ​The U.S. social democratic journal Jacobin recently published an article by Ben Burgis that was a half hearted defence of Marx’s theory of exploitation.

  • | Marcello Musto Karl Marxs Writings on Alienation New York Palgrave Macmillan 2021 164 page | MR Online

    ‘Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation’ by: Marcello Musto, reviewed by: Carlos L. Garrido

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on June 9, 2022 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2022)

    Marcello Musto’s anthology of ‘Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation’ is both comprehensive and concise, containing within the span of 100 pages the three decades long development of the theory through more than a dozen published works and posthumously published manuscripts.

  • | Book review In Defense of Housing By Zachary White | MR Online

    “In Defense of Housing”, Zachary White

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on May 23, 2022 by Zachary White (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted May 26, 2022)

    America made a neoliberal deal with the devil when it began to whittle away New Deal protections for the vulnerable.

  • | What is the Fetishism of Commodities | MR Online

    What is the fetishism of commodities?

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on May 17, 2022 by ​​Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted May 19, 2022)

    I was asked by a few comrades to explain Marx’s concept of the fetishism of commodities, and with that, the main ways it has been misunderstood by both mainstream bourgeois academia and by well-meaning Marxists. The following short reflection attempts to do just that.

  • | On May 2 1945 the Red Army raised the banner of victory over Berlins Reichstag after the fall of the German capital Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker less than 48 hours before | MR Online

    Everyone is forgotten and nothing is remembered: The war in Ukraine and Russia’s reawakening

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on May 6, 2022 by Marius Trotter (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted May 11, 2022)

    After the most titanic, nightmarish war in modern history, after rivers of blood shed from Kiev to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Kursk, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union had vanquished the most vile killing machine the world had yet seen.

  • | Fetishism of Commodities | MR Online

    What is the Fetishism of Commodities?

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on March 3, 2022 by Thomas Riggins (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2022)

    Towards the end of the first chapter of Das Kapital, after having established the validity of the labor theory of value, Marx has a section on the “Fetishism of Commodities”.

  • | ​Martin Heidegger | MR Online

    The Nazis among us: Heidegger and the Hideous

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on February 10, 2022 by ​​Thomas Riggins (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    Martin Heidegger isn’t a philosopher that progressives are likely to consider worthwhile reading. After all, he was an anti-Semite, a follower of Hitler, and most hideous of all, someone who likened the mass extermination of human beings to the excesses of factory farming.

  • | Kaan Kangal Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature London Palgrave Macmillan 2020 213 pages $5999 paperback | MR Online

    ‘Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature’, by: Kaan Kangal

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on February 8, 2022 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    Friedrich Engels’ Dialectics of Nature has been arguably the most polemic ‘book’ within the corpus of classical Marxist literature.

  • | Marvin Harris The Rise of Anthropological Theory A History of Theories of Culture 2001 Reviewed By Thomas Riggins | MR Online

    Book Review: Marvin Harris- The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture (2001). Reviewed By: Thomas Riggins

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on January 21, 2022 by Thomas Rggins (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jan 25, 2022)

    This is an indispensable book for all those on the left interested in understanding how the science of cultural (social) anthropology developed over the last three centuries and how it is used to understand (and sometimes control) non-Western societies, especially those  that have not developed complex state structures.

  • | Relevance of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in the 21st Century | MR Online

    Relevance of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in the 21st Century.

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on January 3, 2022 by Carlos Alarcón Aliaga - Instituto Marx Engel (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2022)

    The death of communism has been pronounced time and time again, but every day it is still fought against without respite or pity. There is no popular act or uprising which the bourgeoise does not see as a sign of communism, no nationalist or progressive opinion which is not branded as communist.

  • | Rebecca Wilson Ticky Tacky | MR Online

    Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on April 2, 2021 by Anita Waters (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Nov 13, 2021)

    Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.

Monthly Review Essays

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    Maja Solar | Graffiti in Mexico City 2011 It reads No Mas Feminicidios No more murder of women | MR Online

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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  • End of Cold War Illusions
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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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