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  •    Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic John Bellamy Foster Amy Leather  Martin Empson   MR Online

    Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic: John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson

    Originally published: Socialist Workers Party Youtube Channel along with Amy Leather and Nadia Sayed on April 18, 2020 (more by Socialist Workers Party Youtube Channel along with Amy Leather and Nadia Sayed)  |

    Join John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson to discuss Marxism and ecology in a time of pandemic. The global environmental crisis has demonstrated how the system’s drive to accumulate means that capitalism puts profit before people and planet.

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

  • The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
    James Petras       MR Online

    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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