Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx (forthcoming 2025)
Author Archive | John Bellamy Foster
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
The Capitalinian: The First Geological Age of the Anthropocene
“The Capitalinian: The First Geological Age of the Anthropocene,” Monthly Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (September 2021), pp. 1-16. The geologic time scale, dividing the 4.6 billion years of Earth history into nested eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages, is one of the great scientific achievements of the last two centuries. Each division is directed […]
The Ecology of Socialism
“The Ecology of Socialism,” Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Berlin, January 9, 2021, provided a video keynote, January 9, 2021.
“The Return of the Dialectics of Nature” (video lecture)
“The Return of the Dialectics of Nature” (video lecture), Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize, Historical Materialism Coference, London, November 12, 2021, 70 minutes. This is a prerecording of the 2020 Deutscher Prize Lecture by John Bellamy Foster. The title of the lecture is: “The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle […]
