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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Angel Lopez

    Workers’ political consciousness in demobilized class societies: Redistribution, recognition and representation

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on October 8, 2025 by Linus Westheuser and LInda Beck (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2025)

    Media reports, as well as a veritable cottage industry of ethnographic explorations documenting right-wing views among workers, have consolidated an image of a class hopelessly lost to resentment and reaction.

  • Watercolour painting from 19th century Punjab via Wikimedia Commons (PD-US)

    To think with, across and through Marx

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on October 23, 2024 by Navyug Gill (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Oct 28, 2024)

    My engagement with Marx in this book is ultimately an act of critical dialogue–of thinking with as well as across and through his texts toward multiple unforeseen destinations.

  • “Kitchen Table Series,” Carrie Mae Weems via Google Images

    ‘The Home and the Reproduction of Society: On Work, Rent and the Reach of Capital’

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on July 15, 2024 by Mai Taha (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2024)

    The early twentieth century saw a wave of anti-colonial struggles that took the form of the labour strike.

  • United States military reportedly assisted the Somali government in an deadly counter-terrorism operation that killed five civilians.

    How the United States underdeveloped Somalia

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on November 13, 2023 by Jason C. Mueller (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2023)

    On September 6, 2023, the United States military reportedly assisted the Somali government in an deadly counter-terrorism operation that killed five civilians.

  • Mussolini in Libya, 4 February 2021, Maria Castell via (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mussolini_in_Libya.jpg)

    Three waves of historical fascism

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on October 24, 2023 by Kristin Plys (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2023)

    Though much marxist theory has explored the recurrent cycles and patterns of historical capitalism, not enough attention has been given to the tendency of moments of politico-economic crisis to become an ideological contestation between fascism and communism in the context of a crisis of liberalism.

  • Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization.

    Amazon shows us the many faces of worker alienation and resistance today

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on April 5, 2023 by Sarrah Kassem (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2023)

    Once again we find ourselves in moments of economic crisis. As we battle through inflation and rounds of devaluation, thousands of workers around the world have lost their livelihoods. Yet amidst this all, we have seen workers across the globe go on strike and protest.

  • Labor Power and Wages after Women’s Labor Market Incorporation in Argentina

    Labor power and wages after women’s labor market incorporation in Argentina

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on January 12, 2022 by Nicolás Aguila and Damián Kennedy (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Jan 13, 2022)

    In the past years, there has been a very much welcomed flourishing of Marxist Feminist analyses.

  • markusspiske

    Opaque algorithms are creating an invisible cage for platform workers

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 9, 2021 by Hatim A. Rahman (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2021)

    We live in a world run by algorithms. Nowhere is this more apparent than with platform companies, such as Facebook, Uber, Google, Amazon, and Twitter.

  • Higher education

    Neoliberalism and the crisis of higher education

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on October 27, 2021 by Beth Mintz (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2021)

    Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of this historical moment. It includes a belief in the following: the efficiency of the free market and the deregulation and privatization of the public sector that markets require; tax reduction; abandoning the welfare state; and replacing the notion of the public good with a personal responsibility for one’s own welfare.

  • China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was

    China’s accession to the WTO and the collapse that never was

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on September 29, 2021 by William Jefferies (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2021)

    President Joe Biden is worried about China. In April he explained “we are in competition with China… to win the 21st century… we are at a great inflection point in history. We have to do more than just build back better… we have to compete more strenuously.”

  • Circe Denyer via Public Domain (CC BY 1.0)

    The case of the vanishing boss

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on August 11, 2021 by Hanna Goldberg (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    This article summarizes the manuscript, “The Two-Employer Problem: Strategic Dilemmas at the Heart of the Tipped Wage Debate,” a co-winner of the 2021 Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award.

  • Statement of Support for Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police

    Statement of Support for Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on June 12, 2020 (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2020)

    Between 1963 and 1972, there were more than 750 Black-led urban revolts in the United States in 525 cities. How did sociologists react?

  • Charles Edward Miller (CC BY-NC 4.0) Flickr

    Limits of the Green New Deal

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 11, 2019 by John McCollum (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2019)

    The Green New Deal is an exciting social program generating a great deal of interest on the left. Like its predecessor, the New Deal of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the GND holds out the promise of preventing the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change, and guaranteeing a better standard of living for its participants.

  • Down with neoliberalism . . . as a concept

    Down with neoliberalism . . . as a concept

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 19, 2018 by Bill Dunn (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 26, 2018)

    I think the left should stop talking about ‘neoliberalism’, as I argue in a recent journal article published in Capital & Class.

  • Andreas Habich via Wikimedia Commons

    Green paradoxes: How climate change policy preserves climate change causes

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on November 26, 2018 by Ryan Gunderson, Diana Stuart & Brian Petersen (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2018)

    Why are societies failing to effectively respond to climate change? Why is it that “environmental degradation increases amid the growth of environmental attention and concern,” as Alexander Stoner and Andony Melathopoulos put it?

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

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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