John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as a major environmental sociologist.

“An Interview of John Bellamy Foster, author of The Great Financial Crisis” (Mike Whitney), Online Journal.com and Globalresearch.com, February 27, 2009. [Full interview issue on MRzine , February 27, 2009.

Dec 1, 2022 · “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.

May 1, 2022 · “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.

Sep 1, 2022 · “Against Doomsday Scenarios: What Is to Be Done Now?” (John Bellamy Foster interviewed by John Molyneux and Owen McCormick), Monthly Review 73, no. 7 (December 2021), pp. 1-16. [Published in Irish Marxist Review, November 2021.]

Recently Published (Note: Clicking on a red title will lead you to a pdf of that article if available) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles. COVID-19 and Imperial Value: Commodity Chains, Global Monopolies, and Catastrophe Capitalism (May 2022); The Return of the Dialectics of Nature (May 2022); Henri Lefebvre’s Conception of Nature-Society in the Revoltuonary Project of …

Nov 1, 2020 · ↩ On Marx and Engels on ecological degradation and extermination in colonial Ireland, see John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020), 64–77.

Mar 1, 2000 · John Bellamy Foster examines Marx’s neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.

Sep 1, 1999 · By John Bellamy Foster on September 1, 1999 in Articles, Journal Articles (Refereed) “ Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology ” [ PDF ], American Journal of Sociology , vol. 105, no. 2 (September 1999), pp. 366-405.

Sep 1, 2022 · John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, is editor of Monthly Review, an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City. His research is devoted to critical inquiries into theory and history, focusing primarily on the economic, political and ecological contradictions of capitalism, but also ...