Saito: making a mess of Marxist ecology
See a reply to this in the comments . Kohei Saito’s eagerly anticipated new book, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Cambridge University Press, 2023) will likely gain a wider readership. Ultimately, Saito’s book is disappointing, promising a new version of Marx, but instead reading back badly-formulated contemporary ideas. The book demonstrates that even when starting from solid premises, it is still possible to go wildly astray. Saito deservedly won many plaudits for his first book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism (2017) – reviewed in Solidarity 523 (30 October 2019)...