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John Bellamy Foster

Editor of Monthly Review and Marxist ecologist, author of Marx's Ecology (2000) and The Ecological Rift (2010).

Lived: 1953–
Authority records: Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources: Wikipedia — John Bellamy Foster

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1984	The Faltering Economy✓	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1986	The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism✓ — an elaboration of Marxian political economy	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1993	The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class✓ — lessons from the ancient forest struggle of the Pacific Northwest	Monthly Review Press, New York, NY	Open Library · WorldCat record
1994	The Vulnerable Planet✓	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1997	In Defense of History✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
1998	Capitalism and the Information Age✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
2000	Hungry for Profit✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
2000	Marx's Ecology	Tandem Library	Open Library
2002	Ecology Against Capitalism✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
2003	Big Picture	Monthly Review Press	Open Library
2004	Pox Americana✓ — Exposing the American Empire	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
2006	Naked Imperialism — The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance	Aakar Books	Open Library
2008	Critique of Intelligent Design✓ — materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
2009	The Ecological Revolution✓ — Making Peace With the Planet	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · Library of Congress record
2009	The Great Financial Crisis✓ — causes and consequences	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
2010	Polygraph 22	Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics	Open Library
2011	The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
2011	What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism	New York University Press	Open Library
2012	The Endless Crisis✓	Monthly Review Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
2014	Necessity of Social Control	New York University Press	Open Library
2017	Councils of Action 1920 and the British Labour Movements Defence of Soviet Russia	Manifesto Press	Open Library
2017	Trump in the White House✓	Monthly Review Press	Open Library · Library of Congress record
2019	Return of Nature	Monthly Review Press	Open Library
2020	Robbery of Nature	Monthly Review Press	Open Library
2022	Beyond Leviathan	Monthly Review Press	Open Library
2022	Washington's New Cold War	Monthly Review Press	Open Library
2024	Dialectics of Ecology	Monthly Review Press	Open Library

Editions in the catalogue

Editions of John Bellamy Foster by year: 46 dated titles, 1984–2025, most in 2025 (5).

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1980s	2
1990s	7
2000s	13
2010s	12
2020s	12

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1984	The Faltering Economy✓ — The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism	Henryk Szlajfer & John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1986	The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism✓ — An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1993	The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class✓ — Lessons from the Ancient Forest Struggle of the Pacific Northwest	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1994	The Vulnerable Planet✓ — A Short Economic History of the Environment Cornerstone Books	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1997	In Defense of History✓ — Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda	John Bellamy Foster & Ellen M. Wood	Monthly Review Press	English
December 1, 1998	Capitalism and the Information Age✓ — The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution	John Bellamy Foster & Robert Waterman McChesney	Monthly Review Press	English
1998	Labor and Monopoly Capitalism✓ — The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century	Harry Braverman, Paul M. Sweezy & John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1999	The Vulnerable Planet✓ — A Short Economic History of the Environment Cornerstone Books	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
1999	Transformation des Kapitalismus✓ — Sozialistische Politik in den USA - eine Debatte Supplement der Zeitschrift Sozialismus; 1999,12	Ellen Meiksins Wood & John Bellamy Foster	VSA-Verlag	German
2000	Hungry for Profit✓ — The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment	Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster & Frederick H. Buttel	Monthly Review Press	English
March 1, 2000	Marx's Ecology✓Free — Materialism and Nature	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2002	Ecology Against Capitalism✓	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2002	Geschichte der Imperialismus- und Monopoltheorie✓ Sozialismus. Supplement; 7-8/2002	John Bellamy Foster & Horst Heininger	VSA-Verlag	German
2003	Big Picture — Understanding Media Through Political Economy	Robert W. McChesney & John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2004	Pox Americana✓ — Exposing the American Empire	John Bellamy Foster & Robert McChesney	Monthly Review Press	English
October 29, 2004	Pox Americana✓ — Exposing the American Empire	John Bellamy Foster & Robert Waterman McChesney	Pluto Press	English
2005	Pox Americana✓ — Exposing the American Empire	John Bellamy Foster & Robert Waterman McChesney	Monthly Review Press	English
2006	Naked Imperialism✓ — The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2008	Critique of Intelligent Design✓ — Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2009	Implosion des Finanzmarkts und Stagnation✓ — Zurück zur Realwirtschaft Supplement der Zeitschrift Sozialismus; 2009,2	John Bellamy Foster & Fred Magdoff	VSA-Verlag	German
2009	The Ecological Revolution✓ — Making Peace with the Planet	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2009	The Great Financial Crisis✓ — Causes and Consequences	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2010	The Ecological Rift✓Free — Capitalism's War on the Earth	John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark & Richard York	Monthly Review Press	English
2011	The Ecological Rift✓Free — Capitalism's War on the Earth	John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark & Richard York	Monthly Review Press	English
2012	The Endless Crisis✓ — How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2013	Hungry for Profit✓ — The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment	Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster & Frederick H. Buttel	Monthly Review Press	English
2014	The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism✓ — An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2014	Theory of Monolopy Capitalism — An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2016	El nuevo imperialismo✓	John Bellamy Foster	El Viejo Topo	Spanish
2017	Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Produces — Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China	John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney	Monthly Review Press	English
2017	Marx and the Earth✓Free — An Anti-critique Historical Materialism Book Series	John Bellamy Foster & Paul Burkett	Haymarket Books	English
2017	The Age of Monopoly Capital✓ — Selected Correspondence of Paul a. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, 1949-1964	Paul Alexander Baran	Monthly Review Press	English
2017	Trump in the White House✓ — Tragedy and Farce Current Affairs	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2019	Return of NatureFree — Socialism and Ecology	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2020	The Return of Nature✓Free — Socialism and Ecology	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2020	The Robbery of Nature✓Free — Capitalism and the Ecological Rift	John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark	Monthly Review Press	English
2021	Return of NatureFree — Socialism and Ecology	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2022	Beyond Leviathan✓ — Critique of the State	István Mészáros & John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2022	Capitalism in the Anthropocene✓Free — Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2022	Washington's New Cold War✓Free — A Socialist Perspective	Vijay Prashad, John Bellamy Foster, John Ross & Deborah Veneziale	Monthly Review Press	English
2024	The Dialectics of Ecology✓ — Socialism and Nature	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2025	Albert Einstein's Why Socialism? — The Enduring Legacy of His Classic Essay	Albert Einstein & John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2025	Breaking the Bonds of Fate✓Free — Epicurus and Marx	John Bellamy Foster	Monthly Review Press	English
2025	Dialéctica de la ecología✓ — Socialismo y naturaleza	John Bellamy Foster	El Viejo Topo	Spanish
2025	Markin Shasok Shreni Ebong Trump Jomana	John Bellamy Foster	National Book Agency	Bengali
2025	Unequal Exchange✓Free — A Study of the Imperialism of Trade	Arghiri Emmanuel, Charles Bettelheim, Torkil Lauesen, John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark	Monthly Review Press	English