The Ecology of Destruction
February 1, 2007
This article is based on talks delivered in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil on November 21–23, 2006, at the Regional University of Blumenau and the Federal University of… READ MORE
Article Author: John Bellamy Foster
‘No Radical Change in the Model’
February 1, 2007
Foreword In the 2006 presidential election campaign in Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Workers’ Party), was interviewed… READ MORE
Monopoly-Finance Capital
December 1, 2006
The year now ending marks the fortieth anniversary of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Optimism of the Heart
October 1, 2006
The following intellectual biography of Harry Magdoff is a slightly revised and expanded version of a piece that was posted on MRzine a few days after Harry’s death on January… READ MORE
Aspects of Class in the United States: An Introduction
July 1, 2006
John Bellamy Foster’s most recent book is Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006). If class war is continual in capitalist society, there… READ MORE
A Warning to Africa: The New U.S. Imperial Grand Strategy
June 1, 2006
John Bellamy Foster’s most recent book is Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006). This is an updated and revised version of a… READ MORE
The Household Debt Bubble
May 1, 2006
This article returns to an issue addressed here six years ago—in The Editors, “Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt,” Monthly Review, May 2000. It represents an attempt to update… READ MORE
The New Geopolitics of Empire
January 1, 2006
This article is a much expanded version of a plenary address delivered to the Fifth Colloquium of Latin American Political Economists in Mexico City on October 27. Parts of this… READ MORE
Organizing Ecological Revolution
October 1, 2005
This is a revised version of a keynote address delivered to the Critical Management Studies section of the Academy of Management in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 8, 2005. My subject—organizing… READ MORE
Naked Imperialism
September 1, 2005
This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster’s Naked Imperialism: America’s Pursuit of Global Dominance, to be published by Monthly Review Press in February 2006. A different version of this… READ MORE