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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Explaining AI with Marx

    Explaining AI with Marx: Turns out that class matters a lot!

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on March 31, 2026 by JYH (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 11, 2026)

    With the AI “revolution” coming for our jobs, our creativity, our politics, our environment, and just about anything else you’d care to think of, it is heartening to see an emerging critique of the shameless boosterism characteristic of so much discussion of the technology.

  • Blockade on Cuba

    The U.S. blockade on Cuba

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on May 28, 2025 by Adam Kendal (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted May 31, 2025)

    As workers and socialists, Cuba’s struggle is our struggle.

  • Indonesia’s new criminal code

    Indonesia’s new criminal code: An attack on human rights and marxism

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on January 10, 2023 by Pattimura Muda (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2023)

    In early December, last year, the Indonesian government legislated a new criminal code to replace the old code that the country inherited from its past colonial oppressor, the Dutch. The government has claimed that the legislation of the new criminal code was an effort to “decolonize” Indonesia’s criminal justice system from the legacy of the Dutch East Indies colonial era.

  • A war on disabled people

    A war on disabled people

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on November 10, 2020 by David Bush (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 19, 2020)

    The last economic crisis in Canada saw an intense and sustained attack on public services and welfare programs that disabled people require to live life.

  • Amazon fulfillment center

    The capitalist economy doesn’t work for workers

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on November 12, 2020 by Mariam Agra and Rechev Browne (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 19, 2020)

    We believe that socialism provides the solution to the world’s ills and that marxist theory gives us the tools to enact social change we so desperately need.  

  • Marxism and intersectionality

    Marxism and intersectionality

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on October 6, 2020 by Jesse McLaren (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2020)

    Ashley Bohrer has provided this important piece of scholarship with her new book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism.

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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