Notes from the Editors, March 2024
March 1, 2024
From John Bellamy Foster: Paul Burkett’s death on January 7, 2024, at age 67, means that the world is suddenly bereft of the figure who played the leading role over… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
Industrial Agriculture: Lessons from North Korea
March 1, 2024
Zhun Xu is an associate professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. For years, when the Western mainstream media mentioned the Democratic People’s… READ MORE
What matters now
February 1, 2024
A tender rain wanders down�on a day when fires burn�elsewhere, elsewhere—�for now. � Ashes float on smoky wind�over houses that no longer�exist, over crisp bodies�and their pets. � Fires rage,… READ MORE
The Senegal Delta and Global Capitalism
February 1, 2024
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development in Venice…. READ MORE
The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction
January 1, 2024
This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.…… READ MORE
Marxian Ecology and Sustainable Human Development
December 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Mahesh Maskey is chief editor of Bampanth (The Left), Nepal. This is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2023
November 1, 2023
buy this issue Last spring, China introduced its Global Civilization Initiative, meant to accompany its earlier Global Development Initiative and its Global Security Initiative (on the latter two initiatives, see… READ MORE
‘Monthly Review’ and the Environment
November 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Batuhan Sarican is editorial director of Gastro Eko, a news website based… READ MORE
Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization
October 1, 2023
This article is based on a talk presented online to the School of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in March 2023. It is revised and expanded from the original published… READ MORE
Out of kilter
October 1, 2023
This morning I woke to the first�real snowfall of the winter�although it’s almost March. � It stretched pretty and blinding�but I started seeds inside just�yesterday. Now frozen ground. � Everything’s… READ MORE