April 1, 2025
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What is ecological civilization? In this article, Chen Yiwen presents a dialectical analysis that illuminates the theoretical and practical elements of ecological civilization, particularly as it develops in the context of China. In China, she notes, significant progress has been made, but there remain outstanding questions that must be resolved during the transition to an ecologically harmonious society that promotes global equality and human flourishing.
June 1, 2024
Brian M. Napoletano considers the implications of recent work by Kohei Saito, in which Saito argues that Marx’s thought progressed from early productivism to middle-stage ecosocialism, and finally to degrowth communism. Napoletano concludes, that in arguing for an artificially contrived “epistemological break” between Marx’s supposed early growth-oriented perspective and his later purported “degrowth communism,” Saito fails to recognize Marx’s actual consistent emphasis throughout his work on a dialectically conceived process of sustainable human development, requiring a true social and ecological revolution.
April 1, 2024
Matthew Sharpe discusses Aymeric Monville’s Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche (The Misery of Left Nietzscheanism), an exploration of how Nietzsche’s popularity on the left co-opts truly radical energy in favor of authoritarianism and elitism. “If Monville is right,” Sharpe concludes, “Nietzcheanism has acted as a kind of ideological ‘useful idiot.'”
March 1, 2024
Marnie Holborow is associate faculty at Dublin City University and the author of Homes in Crisis Capitalism, recently published by Bloomsbury. She is a socialist activist living in Dublin, Ireland…. READ MORE
February 1, 2024
Benjamin Selwyn is a professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Struggle for Development (2017), The Global Development Crisis… READ MORE
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
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
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
September 1, 2023
Helena Sheehan is a professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught philosophy of science, history of ideas, and media studies. She is the author of several books, including… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
buy this issue In his final years, Frederick Engels was deeply concerned about the seeming inevitability of a world war of mass extermination. In his 1887 introduction to a pamphlet… READ MORE
