Late Soviet Ecology and the Planetary Crisis
June 1, 2015
Soviet ecology presents us with an extraordinary set of historical ironies. On the one hand, the USSR in the 1930s and ’40s violently purged many of its leading ecological thinkers… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
April 1, 2015
First I will honor your name. Just as�those colonists first used, then abused�then tried to exterminate those whose�land they coveted, so you squat leering�at our homes, our bodies, our air… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2015
March 1, 2015
From its earliest years, Monthly Review has been distinguished among socialist publications by the degree to which it has incorporated environmental views into its fundamental perspective. Paul Sweezy’s 1950 article,… READ MORE
A Rational Agriculture Is Incompatible with Capitalism
March 1, 2015
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and a long-time commentator on political-economic topics. He is coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of… READ MORE
GMOs: Capitalism’s Distortion of Biological Processes
March 1, 2015
Michael Friedman earned his PhD in biology at the Genomics Laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History and currently works as an adjunct at CUNY (City University of New… READ MORE
Crossing the River of Fire: The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’
February 1, 2015
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah and co-author… READ MORE
Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There
January 1, 2015
Linda C. Forbes is a professor in the Ancell School of Business at Western Connecticut State University. This interview was originally published in 2005–2006 in Organization & Environment 17, no…. READ MORE
Capitalism and the Commodification of Salmon: From Wild Fish to a Genetically Modified Species
December 1, 2014
Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. Rebecca Clausen is an associate professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College. Brett Clark is an… READ MORE
Paul Burkett’s ‘Marx and Nature’ Fifteen Years After
December 1, 2014
This is the foreword to the second edition of Paul Burkett, Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective (Haymarket, 2014). Every book more than a few years old needs… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2014
November 1, 2014
On September 20, 2014, while corporate and government officials arrived in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, organizers and activists from around the world participated in a peoples’… READ MORE