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
Article Subjects and Geography: Marxist Ecology
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
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
September 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is… READ MORE
Ecological Marxism
September 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Jia Keqing is a research fellow at the Academy of Marxism of… READ MORE
Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human DevelopmentÑAn Introduction
July 1, 2023
All important concepts are dialectically vague at the margins. —Herman E. Daly1 The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary… READ MORE
Degrowth and Socialism: Notes on Some Critical Junctures
July 1, 2023
Güney Işıkara is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, Liberal Studies. Özgür Narin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ordu University in Ordu, Türkiye. The dialogue, or… READ MORE
Degrowing ChinaÑBy Collapse, Redistribution, or Planning?
July 1, 2023
Minqi Li is a professor of economics at the University of Utah. Li can be reached at [email protected]. In recent years, degrowth theory has gained popularity among a growing number… READ MORE