The Ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey
March 1, 2005
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. For many years he taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Naming the System:… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Marxist Ecology
A Planetary Defeat: The Failure of Global Environmental Reform
January 1, 2003
This article is reconstructed from the notes for several talks delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa during events leading up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August-September 2002. The first… READ MORE
I. Capitalism’s Twin Crises: Economic and Environmental
September 1, 2002
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and coauthor (with Harold van Es) of Building… READ MORE
II. Capitalism and Ecology: The Nature of the Contradiction
September 1, 2002
This talk was presented to the Socialism 2002 conference in Chicago on June 15, 2002. � The social relation of capital, as we all know, is a contradictory one. These… READ MORE
Ecology Against Capitalism
October 1, 2001
In a 1963 talk on “The Pollution of Our Environment” Rachel Carson drew a close comparison between the reluctance of society in the late twentieth century to embrace the full… READ MORE
Does Ecology Need Marx?
January 1, 2001
Martha E. Gimenez http://csf.colorado.edu/martha/ is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on population theory, Marxist… READ MORE
Capitalism’s Environmental Crisis—Is Technology the Answer?
December 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is an acting editor, of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit:… READ MORE
Ecological Roots: Which Go Deepest?
October 1, 2000
Helena Sheehan teaches at the School of Communications at Dublin City University in Ireland. Foster, John Bellamy, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000), 300pp., $18,… READ MORE
Marx’s Ecological Value Analysis
September 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is the author, most recently,of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, both published by Monthly Review Press. Paul Burkett, Marx and Nature: A Red… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1999
December 1, 1999
Recently, we were talking about the environment to a well-known sociologist and got into a fairly heated debate about the ecological effects of capitalism. He insisted that capitalism has nothing… READ MORE