Kohei Saito

Slow Down (eBook, ePUB)

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024

'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEY

Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment. Therefore, argues award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito, the future must belong to a new form of communism, the only fair and humane existence the limits of nature can support.

Drawing on a revelatory new reading of Karl Marx's enigmatic final writings, Saito shows us how nothing but a transformation of our economic life can save us from climate collapse. There is no alternative: the endless acceleration of capital has run out of road. If we can't slow down, we will crash.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399613002
• Artikelnr.: 67651874

Autorenporträt

Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and the youngest ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the Marxist tradition. He is an editor on MEGA, an ongoing project to publish critical editions of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Slow Down was a huge bestseller on publication and has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in climate economics in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Slow Down: The Deceleration Manifesto
by Kohei Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom
Table of Contents
Introduction: SDGs are the Opiate of the Masses!
Chapter One
 
Climate Change and the Imperial Mode of Living
 
Chapter Two
 
The Limits of Green Keynesianism
Chapter Three
 
Shooting for Degrowth within a Capitalist System
Chapter Four
Marx in the Anthropocene
Chapter Five
 
The Escapism Known as Accelerationism
Chapter Six
 
Capitalism’s Scarcity, Communism’s Abundance
Chapter Seven
 
Degrowth Communism Will Save the World
Chapter Eight
 
The Lever of Climate Justice
Conclusion: How to Prevent History’s End

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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024