John Bellamy Foster, Lynn Fries – Why “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?’”?

John Bellamy Foster, Lynn Fries – Why “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?’”?

John Bellamy Foster reflects on the enduring relevance of Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” in this fourth segment of our series on ecology and materialism. Marx’s foundations of ecological materialism are blended with the work of natural scientists and the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Socialism, as a transformational project whose intellectual birthplace is materialism, had to be forcefully defended by Albert Einstein, the preeminent scientist of the …