John Bellamy Foster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#Enough #Economy #Approach
In the last few decades we have seen the extraordinary rise of ecosocialist movements around the world inspired in large part by Marx's ecological critique of political economy. Marx was indeed influenced by some of the earliest attempts to develop what we now call an ecological-systems view, rooted in the concept of metabolism. Building on this perspective, Marx defined socialism as the rational regulation by the associated producers of the metabolism between society and nature in such a way as to conserve energy and to promote the satisfaction of human needs.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#Perspective #Political #Energy
Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#Thinking #Guy #France
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#Political #Together #Democracy
If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#Two #Exhibitions #Body
Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.
-- John Bellamy Foster

#People #Disguise #Phenomenon

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
Check disease in its approach.
We approach closer and closer to socialism.

John Bellamy Foster famous quotes

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