Slow Down
Paperback
How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
'Simply indispensible'
SLAVOJ I EK'Necessary and energising' JOHN VAILLANT, author of FIRE WEATHER THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTSIn SLOW DOWN, award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito shows us how nothing but a transformation of our economic life can save us from climate collapse. Drawing on a revelatory new reading of Karl Marx's enigmatic final writings, he argues that capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment and that the future must belong to degrowth communism, a fair and humane existence within the limits of nature. There is no alternative: the endless acceleration of capital has run out of road. We must slow down.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781399612999
- Author: Kohei Saito
- Pub date: 08.04.25
- RRP: $29.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Kohei Saito
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.
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