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  • | Image by Ignasi Bernat | MR Online

    Law, code and exploitation

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on September 8, 2021 by Aitor Jiménez (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2021)

    By the end of April 2020, the coronavirus epidemic outbreak was reaching millions. Thousands were dying daily. Nearly one third of the worldwide population was experiencing different degrees of forced quarantine.

  • | atrick Nouhailler Silicon Valley From Above Flickr | MR Online

    The Tech-VC Bloc is key to understanding why work is getting worse

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 21, 2021 by Sidney A Rothstein (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    The promise of digital transformation is anchored in a discourse that the tech sector invented along with venture capital (VC) when they came together to lobby for reducing capital gains taxes in the late 1970s.

  • | Heterodox Economics and Crypto Marxism Search | MR Online

    Heterodox economics and crypto-Marxism

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 7, 2021 by Cian McMahon & Terrence McDonough (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    A series of notable recent anniversaries in the heterodox (non-mainstream/non-orthodox) economics calendar have prompted a reconsideration of Karl Marx’s lasting influence within the field.

  • | OnlineNathan CC BY 20 Flickr | MR Online

    Critical realism and Marxism

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 16, 2020 by Richard Westra (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2020)

    From roughly the 17th century human inquiry about our world assumed an attitude we understand as “scientific” and to demarcate itself from religion or “metaphysics.”

  • | Erich Fromms Marxist Sociology Forty Years Later | MR Online

    Erich Fromm’s Marxist Sociology forty years later

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 8, 2020 by Kieran Durkin (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2020)

    Erich Fromm (1900-1980), who passed forty years ago March of this year, was a leading Marxian sociologist who made considerable contributions to U.S. sociology and to U.S. Marxism. Best known for books such as Escape from Freedom, The Sane Society, and The Art of Loving, Fromm’s account of authoritarianism and critique of mid-twentieth century “consumer capitalism” influenced millions both inside and outside of academia.

  • | Sky News Billboard Screen by Chris Heathcote Flickr | MR Online

    Labor and the social crisis at France Telecom

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on February 26, 2020 by Virginia Doellgast (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Mar 04, 2020)

    The French courts recently found the telecommunications firm Orange/France Telecom and its top managers guilty of “moral harassment” connected to a wave of worker suicides a decade ago. The former management team, including the former CEO, face jail time and fines, while the company was ordered to pay 3 million euros in damages to the victims.

  • | Why Didnt Marx Finish Capital Image International Institute of Social History | MR Online

    Why didn’t Marx finish Capital?

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on February 12, 2020 by Ludo Cuyvers (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Feb 24, 2020)

    The question why Marx’s Capital remained unfinished has occupied many for more than a century.

  • | Marx on Taxation | MR Online

    Marx on taxation

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on August 28, 2019 by David Ireland (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2019)

    “Marx on tax” is seen as an “empty box” by David Harvey in his latest book on Capital, but Marx and Engels had plenty to say about tax. Their tax theorizing is no anachronistic curiosity but perfectly applicable to the income and wealth inequalities of our own era.

  • | Capitalist glory Jeremy Brooks CC BY 20 Flickr | MR Online

    The ruling class does rule

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on July 17, 2019 by Timothy M. Gill (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Jul 23, 2019)

    Throughout the mid-20th century, discussions and theoretical debates concerning the nature of the capitalist state persisted within Marxist circles. Some names are tightly connected with these events, including Ralph Miliband, Nicos Poulantzas, and Fred Block.

  • | Its Not Just Profitability | MR Online

    It’s not just profitability: a response to Michael Roberts

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on June 21, 2019 by David M. Kotz (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2019)

    Michael Roberts takes issue with my blog post “Why Stagnation,” which presented the analysis in a recent article I coauthored with Deepankar Basu. We argued that social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory can explain the current stagnation in the U.S. economy.

  • | Stagnation mage Ian Sane CC BY NC ND 20 Flickr | MR Online

    Why stagnation?

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on May 24, 2019 by David Kotz (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted May 29, 2019)

    The U.S. economy has been stuck in stagnation for a decade. The GDP growth rate has been only 2.2% per year since the recovery from the Financial Crisis and Great Recession of 2008-09 began. That is far below the growth rate in past post-recession recoveries since the end of World War II.

  • | Tipping Point | MR Online

    Are we at a tipping point?

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on January 9, 2019 by Nicole Aschoff (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2019)

    “Liberal democracy is crumbling.” A Harvard Law Professor opened a recent talk with this matter-of-fact statement and the audience readily murmured its assent.

  • | Radical black feminism and the simultaneity of oppression | MR Online

    Radical black feminism and the simultaneity of oppression

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on October 18, 2018 by Rose Brewer (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Nov 27, 2018)

    As the word intersectionality falls from the lips of Hillary Clinton and increasingly is normalized and sanitized, we should be clear about its radical moorings.

  • | ILO in Asia and the Pacific via Flickr CC BY ND 20 | MR Online

    Was the gravedigger thesis central to Marx’s theory of the working class?

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on October 12, 2018 (more by Marxist Sociology)  |

    This article summarizes Matt Vidal, “Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis,” International Socialism 2018.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    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
    Harry Magdoff | F 16N Fighting Falcon | MR Online

    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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