By Paul Burkett (Posted Jan 08, 2024) Ecology, Marxism, Marxist Ecology, SocialismGlobalLost & Found, RemembranceFeatured Paul Burkett (1956-2024) in Memoriam. —Eds. Originally published in Monthly Review, vol. 57: 05 (October 2005). In developed capitalist countries, debates over the economics of socialism have mostly concentrated on questions of information, incentives, and efficiency in resource allocation. This focus on “socialist calculation” reflects…

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Fascinating thread on the DNA of the peoples of the Levant and the Middle East, coming to the important & fascinating (but hardly surprising) conclusions that the Palestinians and the Israelis are close cousins. It demolishes two widely believed myths-  that the Palestinians are outsiders who arrived with the Arab Conquests of the 6th century,…

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by John Bellamy Foster (Jan 01, 2024) Topics: Ecology  Marxism  Marxist Ecology  Philosophy Places: Global This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.… There is nothing clearly defined in nature.… Everything is bound up with everything else. —Denis Diderot1 As Harvard ecologist…