The Ecological State
February 1, 2021
Erald Kolasi received his PhD in physics from George Mason University in 2016. The central problem of economics is scarcity, or at least that is how the story is told…. READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
Preface to the Persian Edition of The Ecological Revolution
February 1, 2021
This is the preface to the Persian-language edition of The Ecological Revolution, translated by Mohsen Saffari and forthcoming this year from Cheshmeh Publication in Iran. The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace… READ MORE
Standing with Standing Rock, Then and Now
January 1, 2021
Zoltán Grossman is a professor of geography and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is the author of Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and… READ MORE
The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology
December 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Alejandro Pedregal is a writer, filmmaker, and lecturer at Aalto University, Finland…. READ MORE
Decolonization in Practice: Lessons from Karuk Nation
December 1, 2020
Leontina Hormel is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Idaho. � Kari Marie Norgaard, Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2020
November 1, 2020
In this issue of Monthly Review, we are publishing two articles marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels: John Bellamy Foster’s “Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the… READ MORE
Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
November 1, 2020
The author would like to thank Fred Magdoff for his help at several points in this article. In “The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”… READ MORE
Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics
November 1, 2020
Kaan Kangal is an associate professor of philosophy at Nanjing University, specializing in dialectics, hermeneutics, metaphysics, and Marx-Engels research. His work on Marx’s Bonn Notebooks won the 2019 David Riazanov… READ MORE
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
November 1, 2020
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including A Redder Shade of Green (Monthly Review Press, 2017). This article is… READ MORE
Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China: Survival Bricolage of Zhoujiazhuang and Puhan Rural Community
October 1, 2020
Lau Kin Chi is program coordinator for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Sit Tsui… READ MORE