Middle East 4 Changeخطر تشکل های سازش طبقاتی (کورپورات) در ایران
Sunday, June 7, 2020
هدایت سلطان زاده یاد داشتی کوتاه در این زمینه این نوشته حدود سی سال قبل در « راه کارگر تئوریک » شماره ۳ منتشر شده است و بنابراین…
Understanding Socialism by Richard Wolff: Book Review
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Michael Roberts The New York Times magazine has described Richard Wolff as “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist”. And that is probably not an exaggeration as a description of this emeritus Professor of…
Abdullah Öcalan’s Strategic Success on prison Island of Imralı
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Civaka Azad and Mahmut Şakar. Mahmut Şakar talked to Civaka Azad about his experience as Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s attorney. On May 2, 2019, Öcalan’s lawyers had…
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik. Harry Magdoff’s The Age of Imperialism is a classic work that shows how postwar political decolonization does not negate the phenomenon of imperialism….
Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data
Monday, July 1, 2019
Evgeny Morozov. More than a decade after the onset of the financial crisis, capitalist ideologues are eager for good publicity. Once-alluring promises of meritocracy and social mobility ring…
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism review – will robots bring utopia or terror?
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Book Review by Ben Tarnoff. The idea that computers will soon steal our jobs is an article of faith among many of the world’s most powerful people. The…
Only People Make Their Own History: Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and Revolution: Book Review
Friday, March 29, 2019
Semir Amin. Radical political economist Samir Amin (1931–2018) left behind a cherished oeuvre of Marxist writings. Amin’s intellectual range—from economics to culture—was admirable, and his lessons remain essential….
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster To comprehend twenty-first-century imperialism we must go beyond analysis of the nation-state to a systematic investigation of the increasing…
Cuba, Che Guevara, and the Problem of “Socialism in One Country”
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Ron Augustin. The presidential elections in Cuba may have marked the end of an era. On the face of it, Raúl Castro’s decision to step aside symbolized, more…
Exploitation and Expropriation, or Why Capitalism Must be Attacked with Equal Force on Every Front
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Michael D Yates. [Author’s note: This essay is based upon arguments made in Chapter 2 (“Some Theoretical Considerations”) of my book, Can the Working Class Change the World? Unless…
“Can the Working Class Change the World?”: Book Review
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Eve Ottenberg. “Can the Working Class Change the World?”, Michael D. Yates Monthly Review Press. If the working class doesn’t save our vastly unequal and dying world, it’s…
Understanding the global economy
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Michael Roberts. This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and…
On the Nature of the Chinese Economic System: Marxist Debates on China
Friday, October 26, 2018
Zhiming Long, Rémy Herrera and Tony Andréani. Posted on Monthly Review October 1, 2018. China’s ruling class admits that the capitalist private sector plays a very important role…
Making War on the Planet: Geoengineering and Capitalism’s Creative Destruction of the Earth
Saturday, October 6, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. A short fuse is burning. At the present rate of global emissions, the world is projected to reach the trillionth metric ton of cumulative carbon…
The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcomandante Marcos
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Benjamin Dangle. Book Review: The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. By Subcommander Marcos. Introduction by Nick Henck. Translation by Henry Gales. (AK Press, 2018)….
In memoriam: Samir Amin at 80, an Introduction and Tribute
Sunday, September 9, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. Published by Monthly Review in 2011, re-posted by Middle East 4 Change as a memorial to Semir Amin who died on August 12, 2018. Samir…
Interview with Angel Prado (Part I): “The commune holds the solution to the crisis”
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Posted on MR Online August 21, 2018. Originally published: Venezuelanalysis by Angel Prado & Ricardo Vaz (August 16, 2018). El Maizal commune is located in the middle of…
Can Freedom and Capitalism Co-Exist?: Book review
Friday, August 10, 2018
Chris Wright. Posted on Counterpunch August 7, 2018. Being run by business, American culture suffers from an overwhelming preponderance of stupidity. When a set of institutions as reactionary…
Marx on the environment: One Question, Marx at 200
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Posted on One Question, May 7 2018. One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question….
Iran’s Labor Protests/strikes, Revolutionary Socialist Direction and International Solidarity
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Frieda Afary. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists June 13, 2018. Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of international labor activists on…
Israel: No such thing as socialist Zionism
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Tony Greenstein. Published by Weekly Worker June 14, 2018 Gideon Levy is one of the few, lonely voices of sanity in an Israel that has veered towards the…
Marx and Feminism: Interview with Nancy Fraser
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Posted on Monthly Review June 4, 2018. Noted scholar Nancy Fraser joined us for a wide-ranging interview covering Marx’ and Engels’ view of social reproduction, the tension between…
A Brief History of the Turkish Left, Part 2: from the 1980 Coup to the Present
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Foti Benlisoy. Posted on Left East. This is the second part of our interview with Foti Benlisoy on the history of the Turkish Left from its late-Ottoman beginnings…
A Brief History of the Turkish Left, Part I: from the Origins to the 1980 Coup
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Foti Benlisoy Posted on Left East We have interviewed prolific Turkish leftist commentator Foti Benlisoy on the history of the Turkish left, from its Ottoman beginnings on to…
Marx and nature: Why we need Marx now more than ever
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Elizabeth Terzakis. Published: International Socialist Review (ISR), Issue #109, 2018. Posted on Monthly Review June 6, 2018 | At the end of January 2018, the rollercoaster ride that is…
Revolution or Decadence? Thoughts on the Transition between Modes of Production on the Occasion of the Marx Bicentennial
Monday, May 7, 2018
Samir Amin. Posted on Monthly Review May 01, 2018. Introduction Karl Marx is a giant thinker, not just for the nineteenth century, but even more for understanding our…
Marx’s Ecological Education: Book review
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Martin Empson. Posted on Monthly Review April 1, 2018. Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press,…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Monday, April 23, 2018
The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create…
The Women’s Movement in Turkey
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Ecehan Balta and Arielle Concilio. Posted on Left Voice on February 28, 2018. Arielle Concilio of Left Voice spoke with Ecehan Balta of the socialist collective Başlangıç Kolektifi…
Climate & Capitalism Interview with Zafer Ülger: Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Zafar Ugler and Arielle Conclio. Posted on Monthly Review on March 5, 2018. Originally on Left Voice. Zafer Ülger is a member of the Başlangıç socialist collective in…