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Marx’s Ecology reviewed by the Freedom Socialist

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
By John Bellamy Foster
200 pp pbk, $23

Reviewed by Dennis Sanders

“Many environmentalists disdain the ideas of Karl Marx. Some tout the spiritual virtues of environmental ‘ideals.’ Some argue for individual solutions like recycling, reduced consumption and ‘going back to the land.’ Anti-communists claim that the ecological crimes of the Stalinist-era USSR flowed from Marxism itself. John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature counters all these ideas. It is a dense and intricate analysis of Marxist theory, its historical and scientific foundations, and how central ecological concerns are to it….”


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