S02E55 - Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism

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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Episode Keywords:


#KoheiSaito, #JanGroos, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #Interview,
#FutureHistoriesInternational, #Degrowth, #Communism,
#Metabolism, #Marx, #Anthropocene, #Capitalism, #Sustainable,
#DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Dualism, #Monism, #Socialism,