Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature.(Book review)

From: Environments | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Keeling, Arn | Copyright information

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

John Bellamy Foster. 2000. Monthly Review Press, New York, ISBN 1-58367-012-2, $20 (paper), 1-58367-011-4, $55 (cloth) 310 pages

In Marx's Ecology, John Bellamy Foster mounts an exhaustive, at times compelling, defence of Karl Marx's credentials as an "ecological thinker." In so doing, Foster takes on both environmentalists critical of Marx's supposed "Promethean" views of human-environment relations and, to a lesser ext...

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