Notes from the Editors, July-August 2018
July 1, 2018
The prefigurative moment in the broad tradition of thought known as ecosocialism can be traced back to the 1960s and ’70s, in the work of such thinkers as K. William… READ MORE
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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift
July 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and an associate professor… READ MORE
No Empires, No Dust Bowls: Ecological Disasters and the Lessons of History
July 1, 2018
Hannah Holleman is an assistant professor of sociology at Amherst College and the author of Dust Bowls of Empire, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Today we are living in a… READ MORE
Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder: Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
July 1, 2018
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). A… READ MORE
Metabolic Rift and the Human Microbiome
July 1, 2018
Michael Friedman teaches biology in Antigua and Barbuda and is a member of Science for the People. Metabolic rift theory has been applied to understanding various instances of our society’s… READ MORE
LandÐSea Ecological Rifts: A Metabolic Analysis of Nutrient Loading
July 1, 2018
Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Stefano B. Longo is an associate professor of sociology at North… READ MORE
On English Farming and Sewers
July 1, 2018
� On November 7, 1859, the Times of London carried a letter from John Mechi, a prominent advocate of scientific farming, warning of “the gradual but sure exhaustion of the… READ MORE
1862 Preface to Agricultural Chemistry
July 1, 2018
� In 1862, Justus von Liebig published the seventh edition of his Organic Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, more commonly known as Agricultural Chemistry. It was standard… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2018
June 1, 2018
With the eruption in March of the scandal around Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, articles raising the alarm on “surveillance capitalism” are suddenly everywhere. The term was coined in MR, in… READ MORE
The Politics of Food in Venezuela
June 1, 2018
Ana Felicien is a researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research and a founding member of the Semillas del Pueblo (Seeds of the People) movement. Christina M. Schiavoni is… READ MORE