September 17, 2023

S02E55 - Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism

58 minutes

Kohei Saito on why degrowth communism is the most promising alternative to capitalism.

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Shownotes

Kohei Saito (University of Tokyo):

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_04217.html

Kohei Saito (Researchmap):

https://researchmap.jp/7000022985/?lang=english

Kohei on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/koheisaito0131

Saito, Kohei. 2023. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376

Saito, Kohei; Wakounig, Gregor. 2023. Systemsturz: Der Sieg der Natur über den Kapitalismus. DTV Verlag.:

https://www.dtv.de/buch/systemsturz-28369

Further Shownotes

Marx’s concept of the metabolic rift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift

Moore, Jason W. 2017. Metabolic rift or metabolic shift? Dialectics, nature, and the world-historical method. Theory and Society 46: 285-318. [PDF available]:

https://jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Moore-Metabolic-Rift-or-Metabolic-Shift-as-published-2017.pdf

Bruno Latour (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour

Latour, Bruno. 2011. Love your monsters: why we must care for our technologies as we do our children. Breakthrough Journal, 2(11), 21-28.:

https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-2/love-your-monsters

Saito, Kohei. 2017. Karl Marx’s ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy. NYU Press.:

https://nyupress.org/9781583676400/karl-marxs-ecosocialism/

Hirsch, Joachim. 2013. Radikaler Reformismus. Zur Rolle des Staates in gesellschaftlichen Emanzipationsprozessen, in: Zelik R. / Tauss A.: Andere mögliche Welten. S. 29-47, VSA-Verlag: Hamburg.:

https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/detail/artikel/andere-moegliche-welten/

Daly, Herman E. 1991. Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays. Island Press.:

https://islandpress.org/books/steady-state-economics

Otto Neurath (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Otto_Neurath

Extinction Rebellion:

https://rebellion.global/

Black Lives Matter:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics

S02E27| Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/

S02E47 | Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e47-matt-huber-on-building-socialism-climate-change-class-war/

S02E43 |Samia Mohammed zur Zukunft jenseits des Marktes:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e43-samia-mohammed-zur-zukunft-jenseits-des-marktes/

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