Notes from the Editors, May 2017
May 1, 2017
The Review of the Month in the April 2017 issue of MR, “Neofascism in the White House,” by John Bellamy Foster, pointed out that the Trump administration has been exceedingly… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point? Global Warming, the Two Climate Denials, and the Environmental Proletariat
May 1, 2017
Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket, 2017). In the summer of… READ MORE
Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
May 1, 2017
Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour (Bookmarks, 2014). Capitalism has, to put it mildly, a peculiar relationship with the natural world.1 Karl Marx perhaps summarized it best… READ MORE
Organisms and Objectifications: A Historical-Materialist Inquiry into the ‘Human and Animal’
March 1, 2017
� Joseph Fracchia is professor emeritus in the Robert D. Clark Honors College and the Department of History at the University of Oregon. � This article is adapted from an… READ MORE
Marx and Engels and the ‘Red Chemist’: The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
March 1, 2017
Ian Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism and the author of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. One basis… READ MORE
The Return of Engels
March 1, 2017
This article is a revised version of an earlier essay by the same title, published online in Jacobin on November 28, 2016, to mark the 196th anniversary of Engels’s birth…. READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2017
February 1, 2017
For those attuned to the most fashionable trends in mainstream discourse on climate change, it is clear that “resilience” is now in, and “sustainability” is out. Once it became apparent,… READ MORE
Trump and Climate Catastrophe
February 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Paul Burkett, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket,… READ MORE
Ecology and Revolution: A Letter to Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, July 31, 1974
February 1, 2017
� In the early 1970s, MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy increasingly introduced ecological themes into the magazine, and began to question the viability of unlimited, exponential economic growth… READ MORE
Marx as a Food Theorist
December 1, 2016
Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands,… READ MORE