Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_4
Kyung-Pil Kim
Kyung-Pil Kim charts the history of the Korean platform economy through the rise of Naver and Kakao, the major firms dominating the markets. How do these companies operate? How did they achieve dominance? Finally, what are recent developments and challenges of labor organizing in this sphere?
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_2
Gisela Cernadas, John Bellamy Foster
How much does it cost to maintain an empire? A stunning new analysis by Gisela Cernadas and John Bellamy Foster shows the true scale of U.S. military spending, which far outstrips conventional estimates, which use data gleaned from traditional sources.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_1
John Bellamy Foster, Batuhan Sarican
In this personal interview with Batuhan Sarican, John Bellamy Foster discusses the idea ecosocialism, relating it to his personal relationship to the environment and our collective relationship to the metabolism of nature.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_5
Michael D. Yates
Michael Yates reviews Ballad of an American, a newly released graphic biography of Black actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson. The book gives an uncompromising look at a complicated, passionate man, wholly dedicated to the cause of liberation.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_3
Rahul Varman
Chip War (Simon and Schuster, 2022) by Chris Miller is a detailed accounting of the U.S. efforts to retain control of the computer chip industry—an industry that has become vital to nearly all aspects of modern life. Rahul Varman explores and expands on these themes, asking all the while: What can the escalating wars over this crucial technology teach us about global capitalism?
克里斯·米勒(Chris Miller)的《芯片战争》(Simon and Schuster, 2022)详细描述了美国为保持对计算机芯片行业的控制所做的努力——这个行业对现代生活的几乎所有方面都至关重要。拉胡尔·瓦曼对这些主题进行了探索和拓展，他一直在问:围绕这项关键技术不断升级的战争，能让我们对全球资本主义有什么了解?
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-10_0
- Editors
buy this issueIn 2022, China released its “Global Civilization Initiative,” a document enumerating China’s commitment to fostering diversity, equality, and cultural exchange. The editors analyze how the U.S. foreign policy community and media jumped to attack the initiative in the interest of defending U.S. imperial strategy around the globe.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-05-2023-09_3
Alex Witherspoon, Amir Khan, Yu Zhou
There is a growing sense in China, Alex Witherspoon, Amir Khan, and Yu Zhou write, that the timeworn methods of social advancement are yielding diminishing returns. Using an original survey of 301 individuals in Jingzhou City, the authors lay bare the roots of this widespread feeling of involution.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-05-2023-09_1
John Bellamy Foster
Following the work of Sinologist Joseph Needham, this talk by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the conceptual linkages between the ancient Greek and Chinese thought and modern dialectical materialism and ecological civilization. This interweaving of intellectual traditions, he writes, has created a "powerful organic ecological-materialist philosophy."
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-05-2023-09_2
Wei Zhang
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China's health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-06-2023-09_2
Wei Zhang
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China's health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
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