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born 1953 United States

John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory.

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The elimination of net neutrality in the United States means further concentration, centralization, and control over the entire Internet by monopolistic service providers.

It has been long understood that “consumer sovereignty” is a myth. To make fundamental changes in the commodity economy it is necessary to have power over production.

We are on a runaway train headed over the climate cliff as we stoke the engine with more coal to increase its speed.

The truth is that, rather than directly challenging capitalism from the Marxist perspective in line with reason and the material interests of the working class, Western academics still professing to be on the Left abandoned Marxism altogether, seeking to criticise modernity and humanism by drawing on the irrationalist tradition emanating from the Right.

Unless we change ourselves as individuals and our culture—the way we relate to the earth—we can’t expect to make the overall changes in society that our necessary.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Bellamy Foster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.