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.

Marx in the Anthropocene

Business & Money

SAITO, KOHEI

Economics

Cambridge University Press

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.

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

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.

Monthly Review+press

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.

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes]&nbsp;a provocative and visionary proposal." --Publishers Weekly, (starred review) "Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global. . . . A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for "sustainable growth" 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 cannot be an integral part of the solution.&nbsp; 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: <ul> <li>the end of mass production and mass consumption</li> <li>decarbonization through shorter working hours</li> <li>the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits</li> </ul> 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.

Astra House

La naturaleza contra el capital: El ecosocialismo de Karl Marx

Bellaterra Edicions

Una llamada a liberar la imaginación para cambiar el sistema y frenar el cambio climático.\nEl impactante libro que desafía el capitalismo para construir una sociedad más justa y terminar con la emergencia climática, a través del pensamiento ecológico de Karl Marx.\nMás de 450.000 lectores en Japón. Premio Asian Book Award 2021 al mejor libro del año.\nLa civilización se enfrenta a una grave crisis existencial en la era del Antropoceno, en la que la actividad económica destruye con saña la Tierra y condena a la humanidad a la catástrofe medioambiental. Si no se toman medidas contra el cambio climático, el mundo volverá a un estado de barbarie. No existe un plan B para el planeta Tierra.\nPara evitar la debacle, es necesario acabar con la obsesión capitalista por la búsqueda ilimitada de beneficios. Pero ¿puede la civilización prosperar renunciando al capitalismo? Por supuesto. Existen soluciones para sortear la crisis, y las pistas para alcanzarlas llevan ciento cincuenta años esperando en el pensamiento del último Karl Marx. Hay una única salida posible: conseguir la abundancia a través del decrecimiento económico. Es la oportunidad para lograr una sociedad más justa.\nKohei Saito ha superado a Thomas Piketty. Este es el auténtico El capital en el siglo XXI.\nENGLISH DESCRIPTION\nA call to free the imagination to change the system and stop climate change.\nA powerful book that challenges capitalism in order to build a fairer society and end the climate emergency, through the ecological thinking of Karl Marx.\nMore than 450,000 readers in Japan. Asia New Book Award 2021.\nCivilization faces a serious existential crisis in the Anthropocene epoch, when economic activity viciously destroys Earth and condemns humanity to an environmental catastrophe. If no action is taken against climate change, the world will return to a state of savagery. There’s no plan B for Earth.\nTo avoid a catastrophe, it’s necessary to end the capitalist obsession with an unlimited search for profits. But can civilization prosper by giving up capitalism? Of course. There are many solutions to overcome the crisis, and the clues to them have been waiting for one hundred and fifty years in the last writings of Karl Marx. There’s only one possible exit: achieving abundance through economic decrease. This is the opportunity to create a fairer society.\nKohei Saito has exceeded Thomas Piketty. This is the authentic Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

El capital en la era del antropoceno / Capital in the Anthropocene (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones B.

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 act

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Marx in the Anthropocene

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

La naturaleza contra el capital: El ecosocialismo de Karl Marx

El capital en la era del antropoceno / Capital in the Anthropocene (Spanish Edition)

Karl Marx's ecosocialism: capitalism, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy