Slow Down
How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
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Narrated by:
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Kohei Saito
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Troy Glasgow
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By:
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Kohei Saito
About this listen
'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 alternative: the endless acceleration of capital has run out of road. If we can't slow down, we will crash.©2024 Kohei Saito (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited
Critic Reviews
'SLOW DOWN has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. What this means is that Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE in short, to all of us.' (Slavoj Žižek, author of VIOLENCE and THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY)
'Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today.' (Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of PALO ALTO)