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Marxism and the Climate Crisis (John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Historical Materialism podcast’)

Marxism and the Climate Crisis (John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Historical Materialism podcast’)

February 20, 2024

In this wide-ranging interview with Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar of the Historical Materialism Podcast, John Bellamy Foster discusses, among other things, his lecture on "The Return of the Dialectics of Nature," the influence of mechanistic worldviews on the field of ecology and 20th century Socialist thought, fundamental assumptions on the part of many Western Marxists regarding the nonexistence of a "dialectics of nature," misunderstandings about Lukács' supposed rejection of a dialectics of nature, Leibig's work on the "soil crisis" and the ways that this steered Marx's concept of the "metabolic rift," etc. - and moves on from there.

WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: Capitalism in the Anthropocene by John Bellamy Foster (Plus: EXCERPTS)

WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: Capitalism in the Anthropocene by John Bellamy Foster (Plus: EXCERPTS)

February 20, 2024

...For many, willing to resign humanity to its “fate,” the idea of a way out of our current dilemma, fundamentally altering society in order to avoid the socioecological chasm before us, will undoubtedly sound utopian. But utopia, a pun coined in the sixteenth century by Thomas More meaning both “nowhere” and “good place,” and therefore often seen as representing a kind of dream state or wishful projection into the future, loses its idealistic connotation in the context of a planetary dystopia where catastrophe, measured against historical precedents, has now become normal and threatens to become irreversible on a planetary scale, due to the inherent apocalyptic tendencies of the current mode of production...

Work could be different (Yates featured in ‘Labor Notes’)

Work could be different (Yates featured in ‘Labor Notes’)

February 20, 2024

...From the employer’s point of view, our labor power is simply a commodity, no different than the inanimate buildings, machines, tools, and raw materials purchased by businesses. Given our circumstances, we must sell this commodity to survive. But after we do, the employer has no guarantee that our capacity to toil will be converted into actual work effort. Workers have always resisted their commodity status...

Notice what Kohei Saito is reading?

Notice what Kohei Saito is reading?

February 20, 2024

In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (Editor's note: Not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English...

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

February 20, 2024

During the Red Scare, a telling phrase came to describe some who had been clamoring for more demonstrative anti-Hitler manifestations before the U.S. entered the war in late 1941: “premature antifascists.” Outside a narrow wartime period, antifascist convictions were now seen from a postwar vantage as suspect, evidence of Communist loyalty. Now forgotten is that there was an offshoot of this tendency: one whose adherents we might call “premature antiracists”....

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