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About Martin Empson

Martin Empson is the author of "Kill All the Gentlemen": Class Stuggle and Change in the English Countryside (London: Bookmarks 2018), Land and Labor: Marxism, Ecology, and Human History (London: Bookmarks 2014) and the pamphlet Marxism and Ecology: Capitalism, Socialism and the Future of the Planet (London: Socialist Workers Party 2009). He frequently blogs on books at https://resolutereader.blogspot.com.
  • Gregory T. Cushman - Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History

    Gregory T. Cushman – ‘Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History’

    Originally published: Resolute Reader on December 18, 2021 (more by Resolute Reader)

    In the last two decades it has been common, in Marxist books on ecology, to find discussions of how capitalist agriculture developed an urgent need for fertilisers to solve the crisis of soil fertility in the 19th century.

  • Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture

    Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture

    Originally published: Solidarity on May 26, 2020 (more by Solidarity)  |

    British climate activist and socialist Martin Empson writes on why the fight against climate change must be a fight for system change and for socialism.

  • Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic: John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson

    Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic: John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson

    Originally published: Socialist Workers Party Youtube Channel along with Amy Leather and Nadia Sayed on April 18, 2020 (more by Socialist Workers Party Youtube Channel along with Amy Leather and Nadia Sayed)  |

    Join John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson to discuss Marxism and ecology in a time of pandemic. The global environmental crisis has demonstrated how the system’s drive to accumulate means that capitalism puts profit before people and planet.

  • Dust Bowls of Empire

    Dust Bowls of Empire

    Originally published: Resolute Reader Blog on December 30, 2018 (more by Resolute Reader Blog)  |

    The “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s was an iconic moment in American history. As a result of what one historian called “the inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately, self-consciously, set itself [the] task of dominating and exploiting the land for all it was worth” tens of thousands of people fled their homes, usually losing their entire livelihoods in the process.

  • "From Natchez to New Orleans" by by A. Persac

    Review of River of Dark Dreams

    Originally published: Resolute Reader Blog on September 3, 2018 (more by Resolute Reader Blog)  |

    This marvelous work of history is a must read for anyone trying to understand the dynamics of slavery in the United States in the pre-Civil War period. Walter Johnson locates slavery as playing a central part in the development of a particularly racialised and oppressive capitalism in the slave states.

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  • Marx’s Ecological Education April 01, 2018
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    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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