John Bellamy Foster is an American journalist, sociologist, essayist and socialist, as well as editor of the Monthly Review, a prominent political journal foundered by the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy in the 1940s.
Foster is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as an environmental socialist.
He has argued that Karl Marx was a radical ecologist in his book, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature .
Foster is interviewed by Peter Boyle for Links and Green Left Weekly.
LeftCast April 29th, 2008
Original audio source
- Capitalism and climate change-- John Bellamy Foster -- video of Foster's talk to the Climate Change Social Change Conference
