“The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime,” Monthly Review 77, no. 11 (May 2025), pp. 1-24. One week after the January 20, 2025, inauguration of Donald Trump in his second stint as U.S. president, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memorandum to federal departments and […]
Author Archive | John Bellamy Foster
Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx (forthcoming 2025)
Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx (forthcoming 2025)
The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime
“The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime,” Monthly Review 76, no. 11 (April 2025), pp. 1-22. U.S. capitalism over the past century has had without question the most powerful, most class-conscious ruling class in the history of the world, straddling both the economy and the state, and projecting its hegemony both domestically and globally. […]
Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue
“Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue” (coauthored with Gabriel Rockhill, Foster listed first), Monthly Review 76, no. 10 (March 2025), p[p 1-25. Gabriel Rockhill: I would like to begin this discussion by addressing, first and foremost, a misconception regarding Western Marxism, which I know is of mutual concern. Western Marxism is not equivalent to Marxism […]
The Dialectical Ecologist: Richard Levins and the Science and Praxis of the Human-Nature Metabolism
Richard Levins, as noted agroecologist and mathematical ecologist John Vandermeer has observed, “was and remains ‘legendary’ in ecology.” Within ecological science itself, Levins’s contributions are vast and paradigm shifting.
Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?”: The Enduring Legacy of His Classic Essay
Over the three-quarters of century since its publication, “Why Socialism?” is one of those rare statements whose power has only grown, reaching untold numbers of readers over the years. It is of crucial importance that—for the sake of the future of humanity—Einstein’s message continues to proliferate.
The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and the Defense of Nature
The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and the Defense of Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), 360 pp. Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As […]
The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The Struggle for Freedom as Necessity
It is a fundamental premise of Marxism that as material conditions change, so do our ideas about the world in which we live.
Podolinsky Myth
“Podolinsky Myth,” in Brent Haddad and Barry D. Solomon, ed., Dictionary of Ecological Economics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2022), 341 words.
Ecological Civilization, Ecological Revolution
An Ecological Marxist Perspective
