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The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books (New York, N.Y.).)
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 1999

Slender but potent
This is a little book, but very informative, although some may be put off by its Marxist point of view. Environmental destruction, as Foster shows, is as old as humankind. Nevertheless destruction of the natural world has increased at an astonishing rate during modern ...
  
  











  



  
Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2006

The emperor has no clothes
"Naked Imperialism" by John Bellamy Foster is an outstanding collection of essays on the topic of U.S. imperialism and the Iraq War. Each chapter consists of an article previously published in the Monthly Review between November, 2001 and January, 2005 and also ...
  
  











  



  
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2000

Marx as ecologist
In "Marx's Ecology," John Bellamy Foster defies conventional green thinking by raising the banner of materialism rather than spirituality in the fight to save the planet and humanity from ecological ruin. In addition to restoring materialism to its proper place, ...
  
  











  



  
Ecology Against Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2002

A Positive Alternative to Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster's "Ecology Against Capitalism" is a collection of essays that addresses some of the various aspects of capitalism's crisis of accumulation and the environment. Importantly, the author compares and contrasts the failures of the ecological economics ...
  
  











  



  
Imperialism Without Colonies
Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2003

In the decades after 1945, as colonial possessions became independent states, it was widely believed that imperialism as a historical phenomenon was coming to an end. The six essays collected in this volume demonstrate that a new form of imperialism was, in fact, taking shape?imperialism defined not by colonial rule but by the global capitalist ...
  
  











  



  
Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, ...

Monthly Review Press, 2008

Very Intelligently Designed - But It Now!
Finally, a much-needed essay by a bunch of godless guys. Thank God! It is very unlikely that Critique of Intelligent Design will attract folks who believe that Jesus wakes up every day in Heaven to ghostwrite the great book of nature down here on Earth. However, ...
  
  











  



  
The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
Istvan Meszaros, John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2008

Today Meszaros's theoretical insights are becoming a material force, gripping the masses through various world-historical developments, including the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela s President Hugo Chavez. John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx s Ecology Istvan Meszaros illuminates the path ahead. He points to the central argument we must ...
  
  











  



  
In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda
Ellen Wood, John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 1997

Take the Sickle and Hammer to the Post-modern Straw Man
Given that the book is a collection of essays, the quality of the content covers a wide spectrum of issues. The overall aim of the book is to give an account of the manner in which postmodernism has hindered social action. Specifically, what is of concern to the ...
  
  











  



  
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment
Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, ...

Monthly Review Press, 2000

Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use ...
  
  











  



  
Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire
John Bellamy Foster, Robert McChesney

Monthly Review Press, 2004

Useful, pertinent, honest essays
The authors of Chapter one, Magdoff, Mchesney and Bellamy Foster give some insights into the U.S. war in the Philipines. Villages were regularly burned and their inhabitants placed in concentration camps. The "water torture" was regularly used on Filipino detainees. ...
  
  











  



  
Monthly Review (volume 56 number 7)
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, ...

monthly review press, 2004

empire of barbarism
  
  











  



  
The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2009

Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made inevitable?if business as usual continues. The roots of the present ecological crisis, ...
  
  











  



  
Remarks on Paul Sweezy on the occasion of his receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award.(Papers from the 1999 AFEE ...
John Bellamy Foster

Association for Evolutionary Economics, 1999

This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2510 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately ...
  
  











  



  
Monthly Review May 2005 (Monthly Review, Volume 57, number 1), 2005

An independent socialist magazine, has some highlighting and writing in one or two article, rest is clean and probably unread.
  
  











  



  
Naked imperialism.(REVIEW OF THE MONTH; United States foreign relations) : An article from: Monthly Review
John Bellamy Foster

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Monthly Review, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4475 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it ...
  
  











  



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