The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction
January 1, 2024
This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.…… READ MORE
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Marxian Ecology and Sustainable Human Development
December 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Mahesh Maskey is chief editor of Bampanth (The Left), Nepal. This is… READ MORE
‘Monthly Review’ and the Environment
November 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Batuhan Sarican is editorial director of Gastro Eko, a news website based… READ MORE
Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level: New Estimates Based on U.S. National Accounts
November 1, 2023
Gisela Cernadas is an economist at the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and a Master’s student on Economic Development and researcher at the Center of Economic Development Studies at… READ MORE
Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization
October 1, 2023
This article is based on a talk presented online to the School of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in March 2023. It is revised and expanded from the original published… READ MORE
Ecological Marxism
September 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Jia Keqing is a research fellow at the Academy of Marxism of… READ MORE
Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human DevelopmentÑAn Introduction
July 1, 2023
All important concepts are dialectically vague at the margins. —Herman E. Daly1 The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary… READ MORE
Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism
June 1, 2023
This article is based on the Engels Memorial Lecture presented to the Marx Memorial Library in London, England, on November 30, 2022. It is revised here, including the addition of… READ MORE
Grand Theft Capital: The Increasing Exploitation and Robbery of the U.S. Working Class
May 1, 2023
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Creating an Ecological Society (with… READ MORE
Marxian Ecology, Dialectics, and the Hierarchy of Needs
April 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Dan Swain is an assistant professor at the Czech University of Life… READ MORE