In the increasingly universal monopoly-capitalist economy and culture of the late twentieth century, people no longer need what they want or want what they need. Wants are artificially manufactured while the most desperate needs of innumerable individuals remain unfulfilled. Although labor productivity has steadily risen, the overall efficiency and rationality of society has in many […]
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John Bellamy Foster
Professor of Sociology & Editor of Monthly Review Magazine
Monthly Review Articles
- Extractivism in the Anthropocene April 1, 2024
- The U.S. Quest for Nuclear Primacy: The Counterforce Doctrine and the Ideology of Moral Asymmetry February 1, 2024
- The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction January 1, 2024
- The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature December 18, 2023
- Marxian Ecology and Sustainable Human Development December 1, 2023
- ‘Monthly Review’ and the Environment November 1, 2023
- Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level: New Estimates Based on U.S. National Accounts November 1, 2023