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Article: Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2005
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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 extent, postmodern writers who emphasize the discursive, rather than material, basis of these relations. Although ploughing through at-times obscure and esoteric fields of socialist theory, Foster's ...