Listen to the Ecologists!

In this reprise from 1992, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy look toward the end of the recession then plaguing the United States, seeing choice looming on the horizon: Will the progressive left attempt to reform capitalism, or replace it entirely? Capital's inexorable thirst for growth beyond natural limits, they write, means we must choose the latter—"if we care about the future of the human species…we had better listen to the ecologists."