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The author takes on sweeping questions of artificial intelligence and its role in today’s capitalist society. “The Great Houses of AI are divided against themselves and cannot stand,” he writes, “If humanity is to flourish, the forces and relations of production must be revolutionized together…creating a world of sustainable human development.”
March 2026 editorial by Foster for Monthly Review: To make sense of present developments, it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.
The fact that the ruling-class oligarchy is now openly wielding power on the national and international stages as part of the Trump regime shows that the overwhelming political influence of the capitalist class is no longer in dispute as this alignment pushes the country deeper into neofascism.
Not only a new administration, but a new ideology has now taken up residence at the White House: neofascism. It resembles in certain ways the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.
Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However, John Bellamy Foster writes, Marx and Engels did not have such a limited conception, instead engaging with the natural sciences, providing insight into the dialectics of nature.
In the Anthropocene, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
How are we to understand the origins and historic significance of the concept of ecological civilization? What is its relation to ecological Marxism? And how is this connected to the worldwide revolutionary struggle aimed at transcending our current planetary emergency and protecting what Karl Marx called “the chain of human generations,” together with life in general?
While commenting on the first part of the “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism” debate, Foster discusses the most urgent task today: to respond to the ecological catastrophe and the danger of an imminent civilisational collapse from an ecosocialist perspective.
István Mészáros was a global thinker strongly committed to anti-imperialist struggles. His most singular contribution to struggles in the Global South was the role he was to play in his strong strategic support of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
The United States (backed by the whole of NATO) is in a long proxy war with Russia, with Ukraine as the battlefield. The U.S. role in this conception is to provide more and more weapons faster and faster with Ukraine doing the fighting, bolstered by foreign mercenaries.
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