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In recent decades there has been an enormous growth of interest in Marx’s ecological ideas, first in the West, and more recently in China
John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His writings have focused on political economy, environmental sociology, and Marxist theory. He is author of numerous books, most recently (with Brett Clark and Richard York) Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present, (with Fred Magdoff), The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, and The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet.
interview on the crisis mature capitalism finds itself in today, and the crisis this has wrought in social democracy
There is no exit from the economic and the ecological crises that beset us that does not require exiting capitalism itself
This is a revised and updated version of an afterword written in May 2013 for the German translation of The Ecological Revolution (Hamburg: Laika…
CJP: What began as a financial crisis in 2007 has become one of the biggest unemployment crises in the advanced capitalist world.…
John Bellamy Foster is best-known as author of Marx's Ecology (2000; in which he corrects the popular misapprehension that Marx did not…
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake…
Capitalism today is caught in a seemingly endless crisis, with economic stagnation and upheaval circling the globe.1 But while the world has been fixated…
Five years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 began there is still no sign of a full recovery of the world…
This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. All of…