The Epochal Crisis
October 1, 2013
Parts of the argument on epochal crisis here were presented in three overlapping keynote addresses in: (1) Esslingen, Germany on May 30, 2013 at a conference on Marxist thought organized… READ MORE
Article Author: John Bellamy Foster
The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction
July 1, 2013
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His latest book, written with Robert W. McChesney, is The Endless Crisis: How… READ MORE
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
July 1, 2013
The present-day world can only be described to present-day people if it is described as capable of transformation. —Bertolt Brecht1 The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political… READ MORE
Marx, Kalecki, and Socialist Strategy
April 1, 2013
A historical perspective on the economic stagnation afflicting the United States and the other advanced capitalist economies requires that we go back to the severe downturn of 1974–1975, which marked… READ MORE
Class War and Labor’s Declining Share
March 1, 2013
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
James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
February 1, 2013
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake up! For the sake of young people,… READ MORE
Toward a Global Dialogue on Ecology and Marxism: A Brief Response to Chinese Scholars
February 1, 2013
I would like to thank Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, Hui Dong, Dezhong Sun, and Lichun Li for doing so much to promote a global dialogue on ecological Marxism by summarizing… READ MORE
The Planetary Emergency
December 1, 2012
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Utah…. READ MORE
A Missing Chapter of Monopoly Capital: Introduction to Baran and Sweezy’s ‘Some Theoretical Implications’
July 1, 2012
Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, published in 1966, is one of the foundational works in the… READ MORE