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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.

E. Tammy Kim on the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito’s book “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto,” which makes the case for communism as a climate-change solution.

Simon Pirani — Making ecosocialism a reality is a huge, many-sided collective task.

T. S. Eliot, somewhere in the Four Quartets, says, “hope would be hope for the wrong thing…” As the world careens towards a cliff, to use a cliché of contemporary conversations about a future that is increasingly the most urgent item on all agendas, hope for the wrong things springs eternal.