A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

Dr. Foster discusses the strong philosophical connections between the ancient Greek philosopher and Marx’s thinking which go back to Marx’s dissertation.

The government has been misleading the public and effectively hiding hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.

Interview with John Bellamy Foster on his new book, “Breaking the bonds of fate, Epicurus and Marx Epicurus”.

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Andreas Vavvos in conjunction with a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism, edited by Vavvos, Leigh Price, and Jan Zumoberhaus. A video of the conversation is below.  

Hoel Le Moal: Marx seems to have been obsessed with the question of communal property throughout his life. In your article “Marx and Communal Society for the July-August 2025 issue of Monthly Review, you quote Marx in his Grundrisse as saying that “as a member of the commune, the individual is the private proprietor” of a “particular plot of land.

On December 11, 2025, the Critical Theory Workshop hosted an online book launch and discussion in celebration of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Rockhill was joined in conversation by Ali Kadri and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, with Jennifer Ponce de León as moderator. A […]

The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for Italy’s OttolinaTV. Watch the first part here.

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was recently interviewed on Italy’s OttolinaTV. Read the accompanying note below, and watch a video of the conversation here. In this first part of a two-part interview with Prof. John Bellamy Foster, we analyze the MAGA phenomenon from a materialist perspective, highlighting the main social composition of the classes […]

What defines global capitalism today?

This interview was first posted by Bibliocracy Radio and broadcast on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. Click here to listen. Thursday, Sept 11 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is the writer and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster on his work in helping Monthly Review Press republish the classic Albert […]

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Smartest Man Ever was a Socialist This interview and the following article were originally posted by A Public Affair on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison, Wisconsin. In the United States, Albert Einstein isn’t well known for his views on socialism. But in 1949, he wrote a salient essay for the […]

This interview was conducted by Zhao Dingqi for the journal World Socialism Studies. Zhao Dingqi: You once pointed out that the MAGA movement is essentially an alliance between the monopolistic capitalist right wing and the lower middle class. How do you understand the reasons behind the formation of this alliance, and how does it reflect […]

What is MAGA imperialism? Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster says that, despite its feints toward anti-imperialist isolationism, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has coalesced into a “hyper-nationalist” form of populism that rejects the U.S.’s post-WWII adherence to liberal internationalism and promotes dominance over other countries via military power rather than through economic globalization.

The dramatic shift in the Trump led U.S. foreign policies, as seen recently in the bombing in Iran, has created enormous confusion and consternation within establishment centers of power.

In this republished essay from 2017, John Bellamy Foster discusses how U.S. neofascism in certain ways resembles the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

How can we transcend the alienation of humanity and nature, and create a world of substantive equality and ecological sustainability?

Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”