The production system itself has to be redesigned from scratch. If the capitalist mode of production leads to resource depletion, soil exhaustion and the destruction of livable environments, then communist revolution cannot be a mere working-class takeover of the means of production. In those notebooks, Marx abandoned his growth-oriented and techno-optimistic views about communism while investigating the environmental unsustainability of industrial capitalism. Saito demonstrated that they constituted not mere distractions to the project of Capital, but a fundamental rethinking of Marx’s critique of capitalism. It is a study of Marx’s notebooks after the publication of Capital: Volume I, detailing his inquiries into the natural sciences. In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth CommunismĬambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.
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