Subjects Archives: Capitalism

The supposed “slum free Mumbai” policy is premised on tearing down the actually existing affordable housing in the city to create land for building unaffordable housing.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril do billions of dollars of business with the Pentagon. Now, the Pentagon has given the two billionaires the job of telling it what to buy.

Monthly Review will continue to address the structural crises of capitalism and humanity’s necessary struggle for a socialist world order. But to do so, we need your help.

“Insane that we allow this,” one journalist said of the rapidly advancing technology. “Sleepwalking into disaster or worse.”

Trillions of dollars are pouring into artificial intelligence.

What is Social Reproduction Theory? It is a Marxist feminist term which covers how capitalism depends on unpaid care in the home for the ongoing reproduction of human life and labour.

Digital capitalism is merely a new form of exploitation that has become widespread by spilling out of the company itself to encompass the mass of its users or customers.

For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.

“Capitalism can’t be fixed, billionaires shouldn’t exist” was among the chants taken up by more than 2,000 protesters who marched on Mark Carney’s CEO Summit Monday night.

A closer look at costs and benefits.

As the central bankers of the world met at Jackson Hole, Wyoming for their annual get together to discuss issues affecting the world financial sector and monetary policy, U.S. statistics for corporate profits for the second quarter of 2026 were released.

The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

The signs of decay and decrepitude of a dying capitalism are all too evident at present.

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.