John Bellamy Foster

November 14, 2020

Books: The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology

John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens Continue reading

Books, Capitalism, Environment

John Bellamy Foster, Joseph Needham, Lancelot Hogben, socialism, William Morris
May 20, 2020

Book: The Return of Nature

Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and… Continue reading

Books, Environment, Socialism

ecology, John Bellamy Foster
June 7, 2016

In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic

One of the most important books of Marxist theory published in recent years is Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, in which John Bellamy Foster rediscovered and expanded on Marx’s understanding of the alienation of human beings from the natural world, crystallized in the concept of metabolic rift. Continue reading

Socialism

ecology, John Bellamy Foster, nature
December 24, 2012

What’s new on Reading From the Left

Reading from the Left is a non-commercial project to promote socialist pamphlets and books from a wide range of publishers and all are free. Continue reading

Books, Socialism

Bolivia, Capitalism, Climate, Cochabamba, Crisis, Ecological Revolution, Ian Angus, John Bellamy Foster, Mother Earth, Population, Public Opinion, Review
November 11, 2011

Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster

5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading

Capitalism, Environment

Bellamy Foster, capital, Climate, Climate Change, Crisis, John Bellamy Foster, Marx, New Scientist, New York, Review, revolution
October 31, 2011

Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster

30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), Continue reading

Capitalism, USA

Bellamy Foster, capital, Climate, Crisis, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, New York, Occupy Wall, occupy wall street, Review, revolution, Wall Street, Zuccotti Park
June 30, 2011

The Ecology of Socialism: John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Solidair/Solidaire

Many green thinkers reject a Marxist analysis because they think that the Marxist approach to the economy is a very productivist one, focused on growth and seeing nature as “a free gift” to mankind. You contradict that idea. Continue reading

Environment, Socialism

Bellamy Foster, capital, class, Ecological Revolution, energy, growth, John Bellamy Foster, Marx, Monthly Review, nature, Review, taxes
December 3, 2009

We Cannot Shop Our Way Out of the Problems John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Max van Lingen

I think people on the left often try to be “practical,” which they interpret as somehow trying to accommodate themselves to the status quo, so as to make minor improvements. Often this is a kind of desperation to effect change. However, Copenhagen is already a dead deal before it begins. The United States and the… Continue reading

Capitalism, Climate Change, Videos

COP-15, Ecosocialism, John Bellamy Foster
August 7, 2009

Book Review: Ecology and Socialism: Inseparable Revolutions

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels famously urged the world’s workers to unite because they had a world to win, and nothing to lose but their chains. Today, the reality of climate change and worsening environmental breakdowns globally adds a further vital dimension to this strident vision of human liberation. We still have a world to… Continue reading

Books

Climate Change, ecology, Global Warming, John Bellamy Foster, karl marx
May 15, 2009

Video: John Bellamy Foster, “One World Ecology”

John Bellamy Foster: There’s no way you can separate peace and ecology. Continue reading

Books, Environment, Videos

Ecological Revolution, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, Review, Video

BOYCOTT TWITTER & FACEBOOK

The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

Pat Robinson

A Revolutionary Black Molecule

LATEST STORIES

Trump’s primetime rant: lies, racism, and crisis at the topDecember 18, 2025
A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza todayDecember 5, 2025
Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regimeDecember 4, 2025
Europe Wants Soldiers, Not Solutions: Germany’s Draft and the Return of the War EconomyNovember 24, 2025
Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and LifeNovember 24, 2025
Fascism, Terror, War and Genocide: The Epochal Crisis of Global CapitalismNovember 24, 2025
A Looming Mexican Coup?November 24, 2025
The Empire That Lost Its Voice: How The Guardian Turned a Search Engine Glitch Into a Geopolitical Ghost StoryNovember 22, 2025
What the UN Gaza vote revealed about the imperialist world orderNovember 20, 2025
Palestinians Will Not Let the Genocide Kill Their Hopes: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2025)November 20, 2025