Latest

  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

    Read more

ALL Posts

  • A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again

    How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana. By Annette Gordon-Reed November 9, 2024 Illustration by Ben Wiseman This article is part of a series of reflections responding to the 2024 election. Read more » It is common, when…

  • Book review: Gandhi Reconsidered

    Published by Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi Shubham Sharma·October 2, 2024 Does a ‘reconsideration’ of Gandhi confirm the considerations or bring out new perspectives? Shubham Sharma reviews Gandhi Reconsidered.  — “I disbelieve history so far as details of acts of heroes are concerned. I accept broad facts from history and draw my own lessons…

  • pplying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution to Latin America

    by Steve Ellner (Oct 01, 2024) Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. By Antonio Gramsci – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. Topics: Marxism  Movements  Revolutions  Socialism Places: Americas  Bolivia  Latin America  Venezuela Steve Ellner is a retired professor from the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 to 2003, and is currently an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. The second wave of progressive Latin American…

  • A Message from John Bellamy Foster

    Dear Friends, Monthly Review emerged seventy-five years ago out of the Popular Front milieu of the Great Depression and Second World War years, which has been a key part of our identity ever since. The historical significance of this is perhaps best captured by Gerald Horne, author of a number of landmark Monthly Review Press books,…

  • Problems vs. Questions: Chekhov on How (Not) to Be a Writer and the Essence of Creative Work

    It is a truism that the questions we ask shape the answers we find. It is, also, a truth. Another is that our questions — those wonderments, uncertainties, and quickenings of doubt that roil under the surface of life — are the atomic units of our creativity. Everything we make — our songs and our stories,…

Search