Slow Down

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

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 …

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

Published Jan. 18, 2024 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

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ISBN:
978-1-3996-1297-5
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Subjects
  • Economic history

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