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  • | Racism Not Race | MR Online

    What race is and isn’t – excerpts from ‘Racism, Not Race’

    Originally published: Science for the People on March 28, 2022 by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. and Alan H. Goodman (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2022)

    Most people who are fighting against racism are doing so with their metaphorical hands tied behind their backs because they are not clear about what race is and what it is not.

  • | Ant | MR Online

    “The Last Refuge of Scoundrels”

    Originally published: Science for the People on February 1, 2022 by Stacy Farina and Matthew Gibbons (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2022)

    New Evidence of E. O. Wilson’s Intimacy with Scientific Racism

  • | Art by Alice Mao | MR Online

    Opening this article voids warranty

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Harun Šiljak (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.

  • | Art by Calvin Wu | MR Online

    Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism

    Originally published: Science for the People on November 3, 2021 by Erik Svensson (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2021)

    Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.

  • | Art by Jordan Collver | MR Online

    ‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, Number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Calvin Wu (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2021)

    In 1999, Howard Zinn published the sensation ‘Marx in Soho: A Play on History’. The story began with Karl Marx petitioning Heaven to come back to Earth for a short while so that he could “clear his name.”

  • | Biology as Ideology The Doctrine of DNA Richard C Lewontin Harper Perennial 1993 144 Pages $1299 | MR Online

    Biology as Ideology at 30

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 8, 2021 by Kulyash Zhumadilova - Lewontin Memorial Collection (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2021)

    ‘The increased atomization of society and associated political economy of capitalism justifies the logic of reductionism’. – Richard Lewontin

  • | Not in Our Genes | MR Online

    Under the influence of Lewontin: Volume Two

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 3, 2021 by Steven Rose, Michael Harris, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2021)

    Friends and colleagues of Dick Lewontin are sharing their stories and reflections.

  • | Richard Lewontin | MR Online

    Richard Lewontin: Race science for the people

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 8, 2021 by Joseph L. Graves Jr. - Lewontin Memorial Collection (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.

  • | Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism Environmental Politics and the Injustice of Green Capitalism | MR Online

    The Colonial Rift

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 2021 by Brandon Burkey & Lydia Patton (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    A Review of Hannah Holleman’s ‘Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism’.

  • | D D Kosambi and W E B Du Bois | MR Online

    The revolutionary science of W. E. B. Du Bois and D. D. Kosambi

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 2, 2021 - Volume 24, Number 1, Racial Capitalism by Archishman Raju (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2021)

    Du Bois, trained in history and sociology, was the first to conduct a scientific study on race in American society. Kosambi was trained in mathematics but was the first to scientifically investigate ancient Indian history.

  • | Clifford D Conner The Tragedy of American Science From Truman to Trump Haymarket Books 2020 300 pages | MR Online

    American Science: Triumph or Tragedy?

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 23, Number 3, Bio-Politics (Forthcoming Winter 2020) by Hamid R Ekbia (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2020)

    A historian of science himself, Conner is fully cognizant of the accomplishments of American science and technology. In an earlier book, A People’s History of Science: Miners, Midwives and “Low Mechanicks” (2005), he demonstrated the contributions of ordinary citizens to science, but he also warned of the corruptive potential of corporate money and military power.

  • | Grand Central during Coronavirus Pandemic | MR Online

    The COVID-19 pandemic and the dual nature of science

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 23, 2020 by Frank Rosenthal (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2020)

    Over two decades ago, Professor Richard Levins, one of the founders of Science for the People, described this phenomenon as the “dual nature” of science.(1) On one hand, scientific investigations discover truths about material reality that are independent of ideology or politics.

  • | Peoples Green New Deal LOGO | MR Online

    Nine ways scientists can support a people’s Green New Deal

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 22, number 1 by Zach Zill (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2019)

    In late 2018, the Green New Deal (GND) vaulted into the center of U.S. politics thanks to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the young activists of the Sunrise Movement. Since then, the GND has become one of the most hotly debated issues in mainstream politics and has helped inspire an upsurge in climate justice activism and organizing.

  • | Green Earth | MR Online

    An Excerpt from Green Earth

    Originally published: Science for the People on Summer Issue, Summer 2018 by Kim Stanley Robinson (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2018)

    Kim Stanley Robinson describes himself as “a patriot of the genre” of science fiction, writing at the intersection of science and politics for over three decades. His work is striking for its warmth and realism.

  • | Geoengineering as Dispossession Science for the People Magazine Science for the People Magazine | MR Online

    Geoengineering as dispossession

    Originally published: Science for the People on Special Issue, Summer 2018 by Kate Dooley & Doreen Stabinsky (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 06, 2018)

    The Political Economy of Land Use in an Era of Climate Urgency.

  • | Man in rain Artwork by Ben Anderson | MR Online

    Geoengineering and environmental capitalism

    Originally published: Science for the People on Summer 2018 by Linda Schneider (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2018)

    If, as history shows, fantasies of weather and climate control have chiefly served commercial and military interests, why should we expect the future to be different?
    —James Fleming, Fixing the Sky

  • | Who Will Control the Earths Thermostat Photo Credit SFTP | MR Online

    Who will control the Earth’s thermostat?

    Originally published: Science for the People on Summer 2018 by Silvia Ribeiro (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2018)

    Geoengineering is a risky business. So risky, in fact, that it should be banned.

  • | For Greenhouse Gases Half is Not Good Enough | MR Online

    For greenhouse gases, half is not good enough

    Originally published: Science for the People on Special Issue, Summer 2018 by John Vandermeer (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2018)

    Although a truth of science is not equivalent to the consensus of scientists, neither historically nor now, there are times when scientific facts (or truths) are of such compelling importance that a near consensus of scientific practitioners ought to be regarded as fact. Yes, when I began smoking cigarettes at age fifteen there was something […]

  • | Geoengineering and Environmental Capitalism | MR Online

    Geoengineering and environmental capitalism

    Originally published: Science for the People on Summer 2018 by Linda Schneider (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2018)

    There are two basic categories of geoengineering technologies. The first is a suite of technologies that aim to reduce the amount of incoming sunlight to artificially cool the climate, Solar Radiation Management (SRM). Proposed SRM projects include shooting aerosols into the stratosphere andbrightening clouds or ocean surfaces to reflect sunlight back into space.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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