John Bellamy Foster Bio | Wiki
John Bellamy Foster is an American professor and editor. He serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the Monthly Review. John writes about the political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory.
He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject. He is the author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis, Critique of Intelligent Design, Naked Imperialism, Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s Ecology, The Vulnerable Planet, and The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster Age
John was born on August 15, 1953, in Seattle, Washington, United States. He is 69 years old.
John Bellamy Foster Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
John Bellamy Foster Family
He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington by his parents. John holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. Information about his parents and/or siblings is not available.
John Bellamy Foster Wife
John is a man who enjoys his life and career, but, he keeps his marital status private. Therefore, it is not known to the public whether he is married, divorced, or single.
John Bellamy Foster Education
He attended Evergreen State College in 1971. John studied economics in response to what he saw as an unfolding crisis in the capitalist economy and US involvement with the 1973 Chilean coup d’état.
In 1976, he moved to Canada and entered the political science graduate program at York University in Toronto. John submitted his 1979 paper, The United States and Monopoly Capital: The Issue of Excess Capacity, to Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review. He serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the Monthly Review.
John Bellamy Foster Books
-The Vulnerable Planet (1999)
-Marx’s Ecology (2000)
-Ecology Against Capitalism (2002)
-The Ecological Revolution (2009)
-The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism (2014)
-Foster, J.B. and R.W. McChesney (2012) The Endless Crisis
-Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce (2017)
-The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020)
-Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution (2022)
John Bellamy Foster Marx’s Ecology
John’s book Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature was published in 2000. The book
overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.
Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John examines Marx’s neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. Marx’s Ecology itself received the book award from the ASA’s Section on Marxist Sociology.
John Bellamy Foster Return Of Nature | The Return Of Nature
John’s book The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020) won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for that year. In the book, John explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Friedrich Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Jay Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism.
John Bellamy Foster Monthly Review
He serves as editor of the Monthly Review. John published his first article for Monthly Review, “Is Monopoly Capital an Illusion?”, while in graduate school in 1981. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the Monthly Review editorial committee in 1989. Along with Robert McChesney, John joined Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff as a co-editor of Monthly Review in 2000. Two years later, he became president of the Monthly Review Foundation.
John Bellamy Foster Ecological Rift
In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth environmental sociologists John, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical assessment of both the problem and the solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in a capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature.
John Bellamy Foster Ecology Against Capitalism
Ecology Against Capitalism focused on the critique of capitalist economics from the standpoint of the environment. In a broad-ranging treatment of contemporary ecological politics, John deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to the environmental crisis, population growth, and soil fertility among others.
John Bellamy Foster University Of Oregon
John serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He was hired in 1985 as a Visiting Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College. One year later he took a position as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and became a full professor of sociology in 2000.
John Bellamy Foster Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Jonh’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
Who Is John Bellamy Foster
John is an American professor and editor. He serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the Monthly Review. John writes about the political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. He is the author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis, Critique of Intelligent Design, Naked Imperialism, Ecology Against Capitalism, and Marx’s Ecology among others.