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John Bellamy Foster — Over the last decade and a half, the concept of extractivism has emerged as a key element in our understanding of the planetary ecological crisis.

This month’s Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the idea of extractivism, a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis.

This article will be released in full online April 17, 2023. What did Marx mean in his discussion of "so-called primitive accumulation" in Capital? Here…

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced...