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  • Red and black UASC cargo ship on body of water.

    Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains—it’s powering them

    Originally published: LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science) on September 19, 2025 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science))  | (Posted Oct 28, 2025)

    Global supply chains (GSCs)—which account for around 70 percent of international trade—are often referred to as the backbone of the world economy.

  • Combination of Image by moritz320 from Pixabay

    Book Review: Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhedbrod

    Originally published: LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science) on May 18, 2020 by Nader Andawos (more by LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science))  | (Posted May 25, 2020)

    Karl Marx has a reputation for being one of the foremost critics of liberalism and the discourse of rights. In Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism, political theorist Igor Shoikhedbrod contests this simplistic assumption.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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