Slow Down

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

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

ISBN:
978-1-3996-1297-5
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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.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Economic history