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A review by books_ergo_sum
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kōhei Saitō
reflective
5.0
Obsessed. This is it. This is THE book.
A thorough solution to climate change that would 1) totally work and 2) be both anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. I feel like I’ve been searching for this book my whole life and now I’ve found it and I don’t really know what to do with myself 😅
It was:
✨ part analysis of all the major economic models on climate justice (the above Aaron Bastani’s included)
✨ part EPIC Marx scholarship
Saito’s critiques were all spot on and I’m in awe of how he took inspiration from unpublished archival drafts of Marx’s later works. It was mind blowing, approachable, and just… right, I think.
Also this is a translated work, originally published in Japanese. And I think it’s a good reminder that maybe we should look outside the Anglo-sphere for solutions to climate change.
A thorough solution to climate change that would 1) totally work and 2) be both anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. I feel like I’ve been searching for this book my whole life and now I’ve found it and I don’t really know what to do with myself 😅
It was:
✨ part analysis of all the major economic models on climate justice (the above Aaron Bastani’s included)
✨ part EPIC Marx scholarship
Saito’s critiques were all spot on and I’m in awe of how he took inspiration from unpublished archival drafts of Marx’s later works. It was mind blowing, approachable, and just… right, I think.
Also this is a translated work, originally published in Japanese. And I think it’s a good reminder that maybe we should look outside the Anglo-sphere for solutions to climate change.