FOREWORD TO CHINA’S ECONOMIC DIALECTIC: THE ORIGINAL ASPIRATION OF REFORM BY CHENG ENFU

John Bellamy Foster is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oregon, United States, and the editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of many books, including The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism (1986, 2014), The Vulnerable Planet (1994), Marx’s Ecology (2000), Ecology Against Capitalism (2002), Naked Imperialism (2006), The Ecological Revolution (2009), The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff, 2009), The Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark and Richard York 2010), The Endless Crisis (with Robert W. McChesney 2012), The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark 2020), The Return of Nature (2020), and Capitalism in the Anthropocene (2022). Email: jfoster@uoregon.edu