Articles by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark

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Socialism and Ecological Survival: An Introduction
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

1 Jul 2022 – Capitalism has brought the world to the edge of the abyss. We are approaching a climate Armageddon making the earth unlivable for the human and other species. Such a catastrophe is still avoidable with a revolutionary-scale reconstitution of the systems of production, consumption, and energy usage, though the time is rapidly running out.

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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

Departing from much previous scholarship, Foster and Clark adopt a materialist and dialectical approach, bridging the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism. The ecological crisis, they explain, extends beyond questions of traditional class struggle to a corporeal rift in the physical organization of living beings themselves, raising critical issues of social reproduction, racial capitalism, alienated speciesism, and ecological imperialism.

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