Late Soviet Ecology and the Planetary Crisis
June 1, 2015
Soviet ecology presents us with an extraordinary set of historical ironies. On the one hand, the USSR in the 1930s and ’40s violently purged many of its leading ecological thinkers… READ MORE
Article Author: John Bellamy Foster
Chávez and the Communal State: On the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
April 1, 2015
On October 20, 2012, less than two weeks after being reelected to his fourth term as Venezuelan president and only months before his death, Hugo Chávez delivered his crucial El… READ MORE
Crossing the River of Fire: The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’
February 1, 2015
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah and co-author… READ MORE
Mészáros and the Critique of the Capital System: Foreword to ‘The Necessity of Social Control’
December 1, 2014
“This is the foreword to István Mészáros, The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press, 2015). István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has… READ MORE
Paul Burkett’s ‘Marx and Nature’ Fifteen Years After
December 1, 2014
This is the foreword to the second edition of Paul Burkett, Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective (Haymarket, 2014). Every book more than a few years old needs… READ MORE
Piketty and the Crisis of Neoclassical Economics
November 1, 2014
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review and editorial director of… READ MORE
Beyond the Degradation of Labor: Braverman and the Structure of the U.S. Working Class
October 1, 2014
R. Jamil Jonna is Associate Editor, Technology at Monthly Review. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.This is a slightly… READ MORE
Surveillance Capitalism: Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age
July 1, 2014
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication… READ MORE
Stagnation and Financialization: The Nature of the Contradiction
May 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and a long-time commentator on political-economic topics. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review… READ MORE
The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE