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John Bellamy Foster on Why He and Paul Burkett Wrote Marx and the Earth: an interview with Junge Welt

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Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, is the author of several books MRP books, including The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Recently, with Paul Burkett, he wrote Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill Publishers), to be released in the U.S. December 13.

John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Christian Stache from the Berlin-based daily, Junge Welt, on capitalism’s destruction of nature, ecological Marxism, and the environmental crisis as a class issue. This interview comes to us from Climate & Capitalism, and is translated, with permission, from Junge Welt (Young World), which bears no responsibility for the English-language text.

CS: “You and your colleague Paul Burkett just released your new book Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique. The subtitle classifies your new book as an ‘Anti-Critique.’ To whom do you reply and, most importantly, why do you answer them?

JBF: A little history is in order here. Since the 1980s there has emerged, first in the United States/Canada and Europe, and now all around the world, what is known as the ecosocialist movement….”

Read the entire interview in Climate & Capitalism

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