Foreword to the Summer Issue
July 1, 2010
I’m certain that this process is irreversible. This movement of change, of restructuring, of revolution, will not be stopped. —Hugo Chávez, 20021 El Caracazo In the eyes of much of… READ MORE
Article Author: John Bellamy Foster
Capitalism, the Absurd System: A View from the United States
June 1, 2010
Robert W. McChesney (rwmcches [at] uiuc.edu) is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and author of The Political Economy of Media (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Financial Power Elite
May 1, 2010
John Bellamy Foster ([email protected]) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Fred Magdoff) of The Great Financial Crisis (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Listen Keynesians, It’s the System! Response to Palley
April 1, 2010
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Fred Magdoff) of The Great Financial Crisis (Monthly… READ MORE
What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
March 1, 2010
Fred Magdoff ([email protected]) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University. He is the… READ MORE
The Age of Monopoly-Finance Capital
February 1, 2010
This article was written for presentation in a panel on Capitalism in Crisis at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice in the World Today, Ho Chi Minh Academy of… READ MORE
István Mészáros, Pathfinder of Socialism
February 1, 2010
This is the foreword to István Mészáros’s The Structural Crisis of Capital (Monthly Review Press, 2010). President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela presented Mészáros with the Libertador (Bolívar) Award for Critical… READ MORE
Why Ecological Revolution?
January 1, 2010
Correction (February 3, 2010)—Passage on Himalayan glaciers in paragraph 5 of article originally published January 2010. This article was written for presentation at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice… READ MORE
The ‘Vulnerable Planet’ Fifteen Years Later
December 1, 2009
This is the preface to the Bangla edition of The Vulnerable Planet, translated by Farooque Chowdhury, to be published by Shahitya Prakash in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and by Bangla Monthly Review… READ MORE
The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
November 1, 2009
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of The Ecological Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Brett Clark is assistant… READ MORE