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Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of
capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This
book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even
suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth
century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives
in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism.
Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx
and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel
idea of Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately
characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative
interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent
debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites
readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the
failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth
century.
A runaway bestseller in Japan and in the spirit of big idea books
by Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy, Saito delivers a bold and urgent
call for a return to Marxism in order to stop climate change.
    Why, in our affluent society, are so
many people living in poverty, without access to health care,
working multiple jobs and still unable to make ends meet, with no
good prospects for the future as the planet is burning?
    In his international bestseller, Kohei
Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for
inequality and climate change, calls for “sustainable growthâ€
and a “Green New Deal†are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism
creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value
of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual
growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse
climate change in a capitalist society—more: the system that
caused the problem in the first place can not be an integral part
of the solution.     Instead, Saito
advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the
slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor
and production. In practical terms, he argues for: the end of mass
production and mass consumption decarbonization through shorter
working hours the prioritization of essential labor over corporate
profits     By returning to a system of
social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on
those activities that are essential for human life, effectively
reversing climate change and saving the planet.
While the deepening structural crisis of capitalism in the 21st
century has led to a revival of interest in Marx all over the
world, Marx's life-long comrade Frederick Engels has largely
remained marginalized. To commemorate the bicentenary of Engels
birth, this edited collection aims to rectify this gap in academic
scholarship by gathering a diverse group of scholars to consider
the legacy of Engels's thought and work and critically examine his
theoretical relevance in today's world. The contributors of this
volume provide new, stimulating reading of Engels's works to revive
some of Engels's key ideas. The Legacy of Engels in the 21st
Century integrates the most recent discoveries and achievements of
Marxian scholarship, employing the historical-critical method
developed in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe to shed light on the
forgotten aspects of Engel's critique of capitalism and vision of
postcapitalism.
Karl Marx called religion "the opium of the masses" because of the
illusory relief it offered from the cold realities of capitalism.
Today, the hard reality that we must face is that we have
fundamentally and irrevocably damaged life on Earth, and while
distracting opiates are everywhere, it is clear that the root cause
is none other than capitalism itself. Building upon a completely
unexplored facet of Marx's thought that has been lying dormant for
more than a century, Japanese star philosopher Kohei Saito reveals
how we are still caught in the trap that Marx diagnosed towards the
end of his life - and proves that capitalism can never be
compatible with a sustainable existence. Unless we can solve the
dilemma that Marx spelt out in his final revelatory writings, and
mend the breach we have torn in the fabric of the natural world,
disaster awaits. A shock bestseller on publication in Japan, SLOW
DOWN will help unleash the imaginative power necessary for us to
create a better society in the age of climate crisis.
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's
writings Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most
resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy,
has frequently been described as a "Promethean." According to
critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to
dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and
create a new world of fulfillment and abundance--a world where
nature is mastered, not by anarchic capitalism, but by a planned
socialist economy. Understandably, this perspective has come under
sharp attack, not only from mainstream environmentalists but also
from ecosocialists, many of whom reject Marx outright. Kohei
Saito's Karl Marx's Ecosocialism lays waste to accusations of
Marx's ecological shortcomings. Delving into Karl Marx's central
works, as well as his natural scientific notebooks--published only
recently and still being translated--Saito also builds on the works
of scholars such as John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, to argue
that Karl Marx actually saw the environmental crisis embedded in
capitalism. "It is not possible to comprehend the full scope of
[Marx's] critique of political economy," Saito writes, "if one
ignores its ecological dimension." Saito's book is crucial today,
as we face unprecedented ecological catastrophes--crises that
cannot be adequately addressed without a sound theoretical
framework. Karl Marx's Ecosocialism shows us that Marx has given us
more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing
Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world.
While the deepening structural crisis of capitalism in the 21st
century has led to a revival of interest in Marx all over the
world, Marx's life-long comrade Frederick Engels has largely
remained marginalized. To commemorate the bicentenary of Engels
birth, this edited collection aims to rectify this gap in academic
scholarship by gathering a diverse group of scholars to consider
the legacy of Engels's thought and work and critically examine his
theoretical relevance in today's world. The contributors of this
volume provide new, stimulating reading of Engels's works to revive
some of Engels's key ideas. The Legacy of Engels in the 21st
Century integrates the most recent discoveries and achievements of
Marxian scholarship, employing the historical-critical method
developed in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe to shed light on the
forgotten aspects of Engel's critique of capitalism and vision of
postcapitalism.
Karl Marx called religion "the opium of the masses" because of the
illusory relief it offered from the cold realities of capitalism.
Today, the hard reality that we must face is that we have
fundamentally and irrevocably damaged life on Earth, and while
distracting opiates are everywhere, it is clear that the root cause
is none other than capitalism itself. Building upon a completely
unexplored facet of Marx's thought that has been lying dormant for
more than a century, Japanese star philosopher Kohei Saito reveals
how we are still caught in the trap that Marx diagnosed towards the
end of his life - and proves that capitalism can never be
compatible with a sustainable existence. Unless we can solve the
dilemma that Marx spelt out in his final revelatory writings, and
mend the breach we have torn in the fabric of the natural world,
disaster awaits. A shock bestseller on publication in Japan, SLOW
DOWN will help unleash the imaginative power necessary for us to
create a better society in the age of climate crisis.
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of
capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This
book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even
suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth
century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives
in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism.
Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx
and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel
idea of Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately
characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative
interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent
debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites
readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the
failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth
century.
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's
writings Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most
resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy,
has frequently been described as a "Promethean." According to
critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to
dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and
create a new world of fulfillment and abundance--a world where
nature is mastered, not by anarchic capitalism, but by a planned
socialist economy. Understandably, this perspective has come under
sharp attack, not only from mainstream environmentalists but also
from ecosocialists, many of whom reject Marx outright. Kohei
Saito's Karl Marx's Ecosocialism lays waste to accusations of
Marx's ecological shortcomings. Delving into Karl Marx's central
works, as well as his natural scientific notebooks--published only
recently and still being translated--Saito also builds on the works
of scholars such as John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, to argue
that Karl Marx actually saw the environmental crisis embedded in
capitalism. "It is not possible to comprehend the full scope of
[Marx's] critique of political economy," Saito writes, "if one
ignores its ecological dimension." Saito's book is crucial today,
as we face unprecedented ecological catastrophes--crises that
cannot be adequately addressed without a sound theoretical
framework. Karl Marx's Ecosocialism shows us that Marx has given us
more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing
Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world.
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