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  •    Fredric Jameson   MR Online

    Remembering Fredric Jameson, 1934-2024

    Originally published: Socialist Worker on September 26, 2024 by Alex Callinicos (more by Socialist Worker)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2024)

    In Fredric Jameson, who died on Sunday at the age of 90, we have lost probably the most creative Marxist thinker of our time.

  •    Karl Marx   MR Online

    The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists

    Originally published: Socialist Worker on July 9, 2024 by Eric Ruder (more by Socialist Worker)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2024)

    Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.

  •    Black and white people united during the Bacons Rebellion in 1676 Pic Morgan RileyWikimedia   MR Online

    Race—a capitalist invention

    Originally published: Socialist Worker on May 17, 2020 (more by Socialist Worker)  | (Posted May 19, 2020)

    Scientists are struggling to understand how Covid-19 affects people differently. Socialist Worker shows that the construct of race has more basis in exploitation than biology.

  •    Coronavirus has reinforced Karl Marxs critique of capitalism   MR Online

    Marxism in an age of catastrophe – capitalism created an era of plagues

    Originally published: Socialist Worker on April 18, 2020 (more by Socialist Worker)  |

    We live in an era of plagues because of capitalist development, argues socialist author Mike Davis. But he also says coronavirus has exposed the gap between a tiny rich elite and the rest of us—and creates space to put forward socialist ideas

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti    A young man at a desk takes the SAT   MR Online

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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