The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift
July 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and an associate professor… READ MORE
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Marx, Value, and Nature
July 1, 2018
This article is a revised version of a talk given at Simon Fraser University in April 2018, sponsored by the Vancouver Ecosocialists. Raoul Peck’s 2017 film The Young Karl Marx… READ MORE
Marx’s Open-Ended Critique
May 1, 2018
Two hundred years after Karl Marx’s birth, the influence of his critique of capital is now as great as ever, in the context of what has been called the “Marx… READ MORE
The Communist Manifesto in the Twenty-First Century
May 1, 2018
For the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, MR cofounder and longtime editor Paul M. Sweezy (1910–2004) wrote an article titled “The Communist Manifesto Today,” published in the May 1998… READ MORE
The Expropriation of Nature
March 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is an associate professor of sociology at the University of… READ MORE
The Present as History’ and the Theory of Monopoly Capital
February 1, 2018
Grzegorz Konat is an economist at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Warsaw, and a frequent contributor to the Polish edition of Le Monde diplomatique. John… READ MORE
What Is Monopoly Capital?
January 1, 2018
This article was initially published in Polish, in Realny kapitalizm. Wokół teorii kapitału monopolistycznego [Real Capitalism: Exploring Monopoly Capital Theory], edited by Grzegorz Konat and Przemysław Wielgosz (Warsaw: Instytut Wydawniczy… READ MORE
The Long Ecological Revolution
November 1, 2017
Aside from the stipulation that nature follows certain laws, no idea was more central to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and to the subsequent development of what came… READ MORE
The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society
September 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. His latest book is Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. This article is a… READ MORE