“Nature,” wrote Raymond Williams in Keywords, “is perhaps the most complex word in the language.” It is derived from the Latin natura, as exemplified by Lucretius’s great didactic poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) from the first century BCE. The word “nature” has three primary, interrelated meanings: (1) the intrinsic properties or […]
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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