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
Article Subjects and Geography: Marxist Ecology
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
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
Marx, Value, and Nature
July 1, 2018
This article is a revised version of a talk given at Simon Fraser University in April 2018, sponsored by the Vancouver Ecosocialists. Raoul Peck’s 2017 film The Young Karl Marx… READ MORE
The Physics of Capitalism
May 1, 2018
Erald Kolasi received his PhD in physics from George Mason University in 2016. People tend to think of capitalism in economic terms. Karl Marx argued that capitalism is a political… READ MORE
Marx’s Ecological Education
April 1, 2018
Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017), 308 pages, $29.00, paperback. Over the last two decades or… READ MORE
The Expropriation of Nature
March 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is an associate professor of sociology at the University of… READ MORE
Between Nature and Society
March 1, 2018
Helena Sheehan is a professor emerita at Dublin City University and the author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science, The Syriza Wave, and a forthcoming memoir, Navigating the Zeitgeist…. READ MORE