April 1, 2024
This month’s Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the idea of extractivism, a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth’s resources since the mid-twentieth century, Foster notes, threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.
February 1, 2024
This article was originally written for A New Global Geometry?: The Socialist Register 2024 (Merlin Press, forthcoming). It has been lightly edited for Monthly Review. When I come to study… READ MORE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
