In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. As banks collapsed and the state scrambled to organize one of the largest transfers of wealth in history, many--including economists and financial experts--were shocked by the speed at which events unfolded. In this new book, ...
The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis. With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared toward private profit has spelled vulnerability for ...
This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from work under capitalism. ...
Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.
In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of ...
From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " "--Contemporary Sociology" "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " "--Dollars and Sense" "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world." "--Environmental Action" The Vulnerable ...
This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time--the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan, and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War ...
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines ...
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 of ...
What is postmodernism? What are the reasons for its attractiveness? In Defense of History is a compelling challenge to postmodern fashion, written by new intellectuals on the left who are reviving historical materialism as an alternative.
Is the Teaching of Evolution to Be Banned in U.S. Public Schools? Is Science Once More to be Burned on the Cross? Will Creationism Win the 2,500 Year War with Materialism and Reason? A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to ...
An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking "Beyond Capital" and a major theoretical contribution ...
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, ...
During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since ...
During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since ...
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 ...
Presents essays that speak directly to the underlying assumptions of postmodernism and offer a critique of its usefulness in both understanding and critiquing the historical epoch.
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Publisher: New York, 1988
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good. No Jacket (Paperback) 8vo. 62 pp. Foster on The Fetish of [Henry] Fordism, Hinton on Dazhai Revisited, and a reprint of Baran's lecture The Commitment of the Intellectual. Light rubbing and handling to wrappers only. read more
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Date Published: 2005
Description: Very Good. Vol 57, No 7, December 2005. Clean text. Richard York & Brett Clark on "Natural History and the Nature of History, " "'Steeler Nation' and the Humiliation of Pittsburgh" by Charles McCollester, "The Struggle for a Democratic Zimbabwe" by Patrick Bond and Richard Saunders, Crossing Race and Nationaltiy: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965" by Bob Wing, poetry by Denise Bergman, ads and more. 63pp. read more
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Description: Very Good. Vol 59, no. 11, April 2008. Articles include "The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis" by John Bellamy Foster, "China, Peak Oil & Neoliberalism's Demise" by Minqi Li, "Market Mythologies/Capitalist Realities" by Samir Amin and "Finance, Imperialism, & Dollar Hegemony" by Ramaa Vasudevan. Clean text. 64pp. read more
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Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Date Published: 2005
Description: Very Good. Vol 56, Number 10. Articles include "The Ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey" by Michael D. Yates, "William Hinto on the Cultural Revolution" by Dave Pugh, "Political Economy" to Mark Twain and others. Reviews. 65pp. Clean text. read more
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Publisher: Monthly Review
Date Published: 2007
Description: Very Good. Vol 59, No. 7, December 2007. Clean and tight. Includes scientific satire from Richard Levins & Richard C. Lewontin, Abu Ghraib & What it is to be Human by Arshin Abid-Moghaddam, Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism by Samir Amin, and more. 64pp. read more
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