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Economics 101
John Bellamy Foster, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002.
Reviewed by Jean-Guy Vaillancourt
Readers of Monthly Review and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, two leading neo-Marxist journals with a strong interest in ecology, will be familiar with some of the 12 chapters of this book. Foster has also published two other remarkable books on similar topics: The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (1994, reprinted 1999) and Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000). He is now working on another book, which will continue unearthing the materialist understanding of nature and of the environmental crisis since the deaths of Marx and Darwin.
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Ecology Against Capitalism takes a contemporary rather than historical approach to the problem of the reduction of people and nature to market relations and values. The capitalizing of nature by the commodity economy, according to Foster, has a destructive impact...