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Marxism in the Anthropocene: Dialectical Rifts on the Left

John Bellamy FosterDepartment of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, United StatesCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 393-421 | Published online: 07 Jul 2016

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