Your lecture begins with the dialectical connections among ecological civilization, ecological Marxism, and ecological revolution, viewed from both historical and practical perspectives. This interview will mainly follow the key points of your speech. Thank you again for giving this lecture on “Ecological Civilization and Ecological Revolution: An Ecological Marxist Perspective” at the invitation of the Sunshine Valley Cobb Ecological Institute. In the following decades, we have studied your ecological Marxism closely, and your important contributions have been recognized, examined, and disseminated further. Back in 2004, in my doctoral dissertation, I introduced your works on ecological Marxism in a systematic way to the Chinese Marxist academic readers. The honor is mine, especially as I have a fairly long acquaintance with your great works.

This is my first interview with you and, as far as I know, the first interview you have completed with an ecological Marxism scholar from mainland China. Guo Jianren: Professor Foster, thank you for doing this interview. John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Guo Jianren, Zhang Haiyan, and Meijun Fan This interview followed a lecture delivered to the John Cobb Ecological Academy in Claremont, California, on June 24, 2022, on the topic of ecological civilization, published in the October 2022 issue of Monthly Review under the title “ Ecological Civilization, Ecological Revolution: An Ecological Marxist Perspective.” Both the lecture and the interview are being co-published by the Poyang Lake Journal in China.

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