John Bellamy Foster - Selected Articles

Selected Articles

Many additional pieces are available on the Monthly Review website.

• "Weber and the Environment: Classical Foundations for a Post-exemptionalist Sociology," coauthored with Hannah Holleman, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 117, no. 6 (May 2012), pp. 1625–73.

• "Marx's Ecology in the 21st Century," coauthored with Brett Clark, World Review of Political Economy, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2010), pp. 142–56.

• “The Midas Effect: A Critique of Climate Change Economics,” coauthored with Brett Clark and Richard York, Development and Change, vol. 40, no. 6 (November 2009), pp. 1085–96.

• “Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift: Unequal Exchange and the Guano/Nitrates Trade,” coauthored with Brett Clark, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 50, no. 3-4 (2009), pp. 311–34.

• “The Sociology of Ecology: Ecological Organicism versus Ecosystem Ecology in the Social Construction of Ecological Science, 1926-1935,” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization & Environment, vol. 21, no. 3 (September 2008), pp. 311–52.

• “The Podolinsky Myth: An Obituary; An Introduction to ‘Human Labour and Unity of Force' by Sergei Podolinsky,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Historical Materialism, no. 16 (2008), pp. 115–61.

• “Classical Marxism and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Marx/Engels, the Heat Death of the Universe Theory, and the Origins of Ecological Economics,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2008), pp. 1–35.

• “The Critique of Intelligent Design: Epicurus, Marx, Darwin and Freud and the Materialist Defense of Science,” coauthored with Brett Clark and Richard York, Theory and Society, vol. 36 (December 2007), pp. 515–46.

• “The Environmental Conditions of the Working Class: An Introduction to Selections from Frederick Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844,” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization & Environment, vol. 19, no. 3 (September 2006), pp. 375–88.

• “Metabolism, Energy, and Entropy in Marx's Critique of Political Economy: Beyond the Podolinsky Myth,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Theory and Society, vol. 35, no. 1 (February 2006), pp. 109–56.

• “The Treadmill of Accumulation: Schnaiberg's Environment and Marxian Political Economy,” Organization and Environment, vol. 18, no. 1 (March 2005), pp. 7–18.

• “Ecological Economics and Classical Marxism: Podolinsky's ‘Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces' and the Responses of Marx and Engels,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2004), 28 pp. 32–60.

• “Land, the Color Line and the Quest of the Silver Fleece: An Introduction to W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece (selections),” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 16, no. 4 (December 2003), pp. 459–69.

• "Marx's Ecology in Historical Perspective," International Socialism, no. 97 (Autumn 2002), pp. 71–86.

• "Hellen Keller and the Touch of Nature: An Introduction to Keller's The World I live In (Selections),” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 15, no. 3 (September 2002), pp. 278–84.

• "Marx and the Dialectic of Orgainc/Inorganic Relations: A Rejoinder to Salleh and Clark," coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 14, no. 4 (December 2001), pp. 451–62.

• “William Stanley Jevons and The Coal Question : An Introduction to Jevons' ‘Of the Economy of Fuel',” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 93–98.

• ”The Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic Relations: Marx and the Hegelian Philosophy of Nature,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 13, no. 4 (December 2000), pp. 403–25.

• “E. Ray Lankester, Ecological Materialist: Introduction to ‘The Effacement of Nature by Man,” Organization and Environment, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2000), pp. 233–35.

• “Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 2 (September 1999), pp. 366–405.

• “Contradictions in the Universalization of Capitalism,” Monthly Review, vol. 50, no. 11 (April 1999), pp. 29–39.

• ”The Age of Planetary Crisis: The Unsustainable Development of Capitalism” (in special issue on “The Future of Capitalism”), Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 29, no. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 113–42.

• ”The Crisis of the Earth: Marx's Theory of Ecological Sustainability as a Nature-Imposed Necessity for Human Production,” Organization and Environment, vol. 10, no. 3 (September 1997), pp. 280–97.

• ”The Long Stagnation and the Class Struggle,” Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 1997), pp. 445–51.

• "Market Fetishism and the Attack on Social Reason: A Comment on Hayek, Polanyi and Wainwright," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 6, no. 4 (December 1995), pp. 101–107.

• "The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: Lessons from the Ancient Forest Crisis of the Pacific Northwest," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 1993), pp. 11– 41.

• "The Absolute General Law of Environmental Degradation Under Capitalism," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 3, no. 3 (September 1992), pp. 77–82.

• "Crises Lasting for Decades," Science & Society, vol. 54, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 73–81.

• "Monopoly Capital Theory and Stagflation," Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring and Summer 1985), pp. 221–25.

• "Sources of Instability in the U.S. Political Economy and Empire," Science & Society, vol. XLIX, no. 2 (Summer 1985), pp. 167–193.

• "The Political Economy of Joseph Schumpeter: A Theory of Capitalist Development and Decline," Studies in Political Economy, no. 15 (Fall 1984), pp. 5–42.

• "Understanding the Significance of the Great Depression," Studies in Political Economy, no. 11 (Summer 1983), pp. 177–196.

• "Theories of Capitalist Transformation: Critical Notes on the Comparison of Marx and Schumpeter," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. XCVIII, no. 2 (May 1983), pp. 327–33l.