Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a leading contemporary Marxist thinker. His most recent book, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020), has sold more than half a million copies in Japan and sparked an international debate about whether a revolutionary transformation of the global capitalist system is necessary to address the global climate crisis. (It was published in English as Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto in January 2024.) Saito’s previous book, Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017), which creatively explored the ecological dimension of Marx’s thought and its contemporary relevance, won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.
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Five years ago, when my book Slow Down (2023) was first published in Japan, Karl Marx experienced an unexpected resurgence amid the dual crises of the pandemic and climate breakdown. The concept of "degrowth communism" gained surprising popularity…
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Karl Marx once celebrated the power of technological development under capitalism, believing it would lead to a bright socialist future. Today, it is clear that his dream of a technological utopia has not come true. Rather, technological progress…
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“No is not enough.”
This famous phrase from Naomi Klein is more compelling than ever as we hurtle full speed towards planetary catastrophe. Today, it is indispensable to envision a new future because what we cannot envision cannot be achieved. The…
