John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster ( born August 19, 1953) is an American journalist, sociologist, essayist and editor of the Marxist Ökosozialist and magazine Monthly Review.

Foster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has published on topics such as political economy and environmental sociology and deals with Marxist theory.

Foster has written comments to the path of development of eco - communalism within the Scenarios series The Great Transition, which has the Global scenario group presented.

Writings (selection )

• The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism. In 1982.
• Ellen Meiksins Wood ( ed.): In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda. In 1996.
• Ellen Meiksins Wood and Robert W. McChesney (eds.): Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution. In 1998.
• The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment. 2nd edition. In 1999.
• Marx 's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. , 2000.
• Ecology Against Capitalism. , 2002.
• With Robert McChesney (eds.): Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire. , 2004.
• Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance. , 2006.
• With Brett Clark and Richard York: The ecological breakdown. Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942281-97-3.
• Fred Magdoff: What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942281-37-9
• Ecological Revolution. Peace between man and nature Laika Verlag, Hamburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-942281-41-6.