“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 […]
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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 […]
Imperiralism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory
“Imperiralism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory,” Monthly Review 76, no. 9 (February 2025), pp. 1-21. The concept of settler colonialism has always been a key element in the Marxist theory of imperialism, the meaning of which has gradually evolved over a century and a half. Today the reemergence of powerful Indigenous movements in […]
Preface to the German Edition of Marx’s Ecology
“Preface to the German Edition of Marx’s Ecology,” Monthly Review, vol. 76, no. 7 (December 2024), pp. 41-43. The research leading to the writing of Marx’s Ecologybegan in the mid-1990s in response to a request for an article on “Erde” (Earth) for volume 3 (Ebene-Extremisis) of the Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, edited by Wolfgang Fritz […]
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.
Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution
Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, forthcoming 2022), 693 pp. Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale […]
Antinomies of Space and Nature or an Open Totality?: Neil Smith and Henri Lefebvre on Nature and Society
“Antinomies of Space and Nature or an Open Totality?: Neil Smith and Henri Lefebvre on Nature and Society” (coauthored with Brian M. Napoletano and Brett Clark, Foster listed second), Human Geography (published Online First, November 2022), 14 pp. The work of Henri Lefebvre has played a pivotal role in human geography in recent decades. At […]
