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Paul Burkett (1956-2024) was an American economist, educator, and musician known for his writings on ecological Marxism. He published numerous works on eco-socialism, taught at various universities, and performed jazz saxophone under the name PapaPatty.
Jan 8, 2024 · Paul Burkett, a professor of economics and a pioneer of ecosocialism, passed away on January 7, 2024. He wrote influential books on Marx and nature, ecological economics, and performed as PapaPatty.
Paul Burkett was an ecological economist and jazz musician who wrote for Monthly Review, a socialist magazine. His articles cover topics such as China, Marxism, ecology, and culture.
With Marx and Nature , Paul Burkett reconstructs Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, including the ...
Paul Burkett is Professor of Economics at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. His publications on Marxism and ecology include Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective (Haymarket, 2014) and, with John Bellamy Foster, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Haymarket, 2017).
Re-reading Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature today, nearly a decade and a half after its first publication, reminds me of how different in some respects the historical context was then, at the end of the twentieth century, from what we face today, in the second decade of the twenty-first century.…
Hart-Landsberg and Burkett’s China and Socialism argues that market reforms in China are leading inexorably toward a capitalist and foreign-dominated development path, with enormous social and political costs, both domestically and internationally.
