Dear Comrades I have a friend’s birthday coming up and he is in to sustainability/ environmental issues. Any suggestions on a good book regarding the subject, with preference to something dialectical in nature.
Marx’s Ecology by John Bellamy Foster https://archive.org/details/marxsecologymate0000fost
I really like Foster’s work as Zhemax suggested. He’s my favourite Marxist ecologist and I’ve really enjoyed everything he has written.
David Harvey would be a good option. He was a Marxist geographer who used that field to explore urbanism and human-nature dialectics. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference was a really big book for me in understanding what a landscape means.
Richard Lewontin too. He was a Marxist evolutionary biologist whose The Dialectical Biologist was probably my biggest scientific influence. It was huge for understanding life sciences holistically, but isn’t focused on environmentalism itself so much as the awareness beneath it.
I’m also studying that subject!
Here are some good books:
- Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology (very technical, focusing on ecological policies in AES states)
- Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Ecosocialist Futures (this one focuses on ecology in the Soviet Union and China, requires prior interest in said countries)
I haven’t read it yet but Monthly Review has a book called ‘The Dialectics of Ecology.’
Might be good to check out?
I think it’s Foster’s best outside of his much longer The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, unless you’re entirely new to Marxist ecology in which case Marx’s Ecology is the best starting point for the general background and critical analyses of other socioecological theorists.
Thank you all for responding, much appreciated!
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