• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • MR (Castilian)
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays

About Ian Angus

Ian Angus is a socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada. He is editor of the ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism. He is co-author, with Simon Butler, of Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011), editor of the anthology The Global Fight for Climate Justice (Fernwood, 2010); and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). His latest book is A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017).
  • Image by The All-Nite Images via Flickr

    Capitalism versus life on Earth

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on November 19, 2019 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.

  • Guano

    Capitalism ‘solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A brief history

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 30, 2019 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.

  • Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism

    Ian Angus on the politics of ecosocialism

    Originally published: Rebel News on August 9, 2019 (more by Rebel News)  |

    Ecosocialism — in particular the Marxist wing of the ecosocialist movement — builds and acts on that understanding.

  • Ian Angus - Feature presentation at the SWP Marxism Festival in London, UK, on July 6, 2019.

    The discovery and rediscovery of metabolic rift

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 28, 2019 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.

  • Aaron Bastani FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM Verso, 2019

    Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 22, 2019 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    When I was ten years old, I read and re-read a stack of decades-old Modern Mechanix magazines that I found in my grandfather’s basement. Throughout the Great Depression, MM regaled its readers with breathless accounts of technological marvels that were going to change the world, very soon.

  • A Marxist History of Capitalism

    A Marxist History of Capitalism

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 16, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.

  • Effects | Facts – Climate Change- Vital Signs of the Planet

    Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 15, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    On October 14, on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, the President of the United States admitted that climate change is not a hoax. It is probably happening, he said, but he doesn’t know what is causing it, and he thinks it might change back. 

  • Figure 1- Potential tipping cascades. Individual tipping elements are color-coded according to estimated temperature thresholds. Arrows show potential interactions. (PNAS)

    Climate change in the Anthropocene: an unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 12, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Leading Earth System scientists warn: “The Earth System may be approaching a planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing rapid pathway toward much hotter conditions.… Incremental linear changes to the present socioeconomic system are not enough to stabilize the Earth System.”

  • Vladimir Vernadsky (Photo: ecologise.in)

    Vladimir Vernadsky and the disruption of the biosphere

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 5, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Virtually unknown in the west, the great Russian geologist and geochemist pioneered scientific study of life’s impact on the Earth.

  • Ecology Marx art full

    Marx and Metabolism: lost in translation?

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 1, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Why wasn’t Marx’s concept of metabolic rift recognized until recently? Changed circumstances, unpublished works, and bad translations all played a role.

  • Philadelphia Recycling Guide: Do's & Don'ts

    Earth’s circular economy: recycling as a law of life

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 9, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    On every scale, from the smallest cells to the entire planet, the essential elements of life are constantly used and re-used. Biogeochemical cycles are the basis of the biosphere.

  • Two examples of "algal" organism, witch independently invented endosymbiosis

    Five revolutions: how bacteria created the biosphere and caused the first climate crisis

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on April 17, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    “Life is the mode of existence of protein bodies, the essential element of which consists in continual metabolic interchange with the natural environment outside them.”

  • Cropped cover of The Progress of this Storm by Andreas Malm

    The progress of this storm

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on February 19, 2018 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action.

  • Jason W Moore at BInghamton University in July 2017

    Illusions of world-ecology

    Originally published: International Socialism on January 9, 2018 (more by International Socialism)  |

    Every airport bookstore features books with titles like 10 Ways to Retire Rich, 150 Places You Must Visit Before You Die, or 8 Easy Steps to a Flatter Tummy, with the numbers in very large type on their covers. They are the publishing ­equivalent of junk food, quickie books written to match titles that were invented by the marketing department to generate impulse purchases. The authors and publisher of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things must have had such books in mind when they chose its title and designed its cover.

  • Greenwashing

    Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 25, 2017 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Ecomodernism is incompatible with ecosocialism. If Jacobin recognizes that and changes course, it can make important contributions to the fight against climate change.

  • The Steps to Ecosocialism

    Ian Angus and John Bellamy Foster

    John Bellamy Foster and Ian Angus reply to a recent article published by Daniel Tanuro on carbon pricing schemes. Tanuro, a vehement critic of such schemes, focuses his critique on the cautiously critical support given by Foster and Angus to proposals developed by climate scientist James Hansen.

  • Expert Panel: The Anthropocene Epoch Has Definitely Begun

    Ian Angus

    Key conclusion of Anthropocene Working Group report to Geological Congress: the “Great Acceleration” in the second half of the 20th century marked the end of the Holocene and the beginning of a new geological epoch. The evidence is overwhelming: earth entered a new geological epoch in about 1950.  In an official report to the International […]

  • Hijacking the Anthropocene

    Ian Angus

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages?  Some simply deny the science, as many conservatives do with climate […]

  • The Origin of Rosa Luxemburg’s Slogan “Socialism or Barbarism”

    Ian Angus

    I think I have solved a small puzzle in socialist history. Climate & Capitalism‘s tagline, “Ecosocialism or barbarism: There is no third way,” is based on the slogan, “Socialism or Barbarism,” which Rosa Luxemburg raised to such great effect during World War I and the subsequent German revolution, and which has been adopted by many […]

  • Once Again on “Environmental Catastrophism”: A Reply to Sam Gindin

    Ian Angus

    Last year in Monthly Review, I debated Eddie Yuen, an anarchist who believes it is a mistake for radicals to focus on telling the truth about the global environmental crisis, because “awareness of climate crisis does not necessarily lead to increased political engagement.”  Not only can such awareness lead to apathy, he wrote, but “environmental […]

← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Next →

Also By Ian Angus in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Marx and Engels and Russia’s Peasant Communes October 01, 2022
  • Facing the Anthropocene: An Update November 01, 2020
  • The Trial of Thomas Hardy November 01, 2019
  • Superbugs in the Anthropocene June 01, 2019
  • Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder July 01, 2018
  • Marx and Engels and the ‘Red Chemist’ March 01, 2017
  • When Did the Anthropocene Begin…and Why Does It Matter? September 01, 2015

Books By Ian Angus

  • The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism December 13, 2022
  • A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism June 14, 2017
  • Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System May 31, 2016

Monthly Review Essays

  • Extractivism in the Anthropocene
    John Bellamy Foster Dio Cramer

    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

Lost & Found

  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

Trending

Popular (last 30 days)

RSS MR Press News

  • The Caribbean Philosophical Association grants the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award to Gerald Horne February 1, 2023
  • Listen: Ending the Myth (Co-author of Dissenting POWs interviewed on Mechanical Freak) January 31, 2023
  • NEW! SOCIALIST REGISTER 2023 (EXCERPTS) January 31, 2023
  • “Pathbreaking…an ideal teaching tool for college classes” (A Land With A People reviewed for ‘Socialism and Democracy’) January 23, 2023
  • “Suspense and dramatic interest” (Radek reviewed in ‘Socialism and Democracy’) January 23, 2023

RSS Climate & Capitalism

  • Even with emission cuts, 2º heating is likely by 2054 February 1, 2023
  • Top 1% grab twice as much new wealth as everyone else combined January 16, 2023
  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2023 January 15, 2023
  • 90% of world’s people to face combined extreme heat and drought January 9, 2023
  • Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype January 2, 2023

RSS Monthly Review

  • February 2023 (Volume 74, Number 9) February 1, 2023 The Editors
  • The New Irrationalism February 1, 2023 John Bellamy Foster
  • U.S. Economic Planning in the Second World War and the Planetary Crisis February 1, 2023 Martin Hart-Landsberg
  • Half-Earth Socialism and the Path Beyond Capital February 1, 2023 Brian M. Napoletano
  • SCOTUS on a roll February 1, 2023 Marge Piercy

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

Monthly Review Foundation
134 W 29TH ST STE 706
New York NY 10001-5304

Tel: 212-691-2555