Slow Down
Autor Kohei Saito Traducere de Brian Bergstromen Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 ian 2024
Why, in our affluent society, are so many people living in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and still unable to make ends meet, with no good prospects for the future as the planet is burning?
In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society—more: the system that caused the problem in the first place can not be an integral part of the solution.
Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for:
- the end of mass production and mass consumption
- decarbonization through shorter working hours
- the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781662602368
ISBN-10: 1662602367
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Astra Publishing House
ISBN-10: 1662602367
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Astra Publishing House
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Kohei Saito
Cuprins
Slow Down: The Deceleration Manifesto
by Kohei Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom
Table of Contents
Introduction: SDGs are the Opiate of the Masses!
Chapter One
Climate Change and the Imperial Mode of Living
Chapter Two
The Limits of Green Keynesianism
Chapter Three
Shooting for Degrowth within a Capitalist System
Chapter Four
Marx in the Anthropocene
Chapter Five
The Escapism Known as Accelerationism
Chapter Six
Capitalism’s Scarcity, Communism’s Abundance
Chapter Seven
Degrowth Communism Will Save the World
Chapter Eight
The Lever of Climate Justice
Conclusion: How to Prevent History’s End
by Kohei Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom
Table of Contents
Introduction: SDGs are the Opiate of the Masses!
Chapter One
Climate Change and the Imperial Mode of Living
Chapter Two
The Limits of Green Keynesianism
Chapter Three
Shooting for Degrowth within a Capitalist System
Chapter Four
Marx in the Anthropocene
Chapter Five
The Escapism Known as Accelerationism
Chapter Six
Capitalism’s Scarcity, Communism’s Abundance
Chapter Seven
Degrowth Communism Will Save the World
Chapter Eight
The Lever of Climate Justice
Conclusion: How to Prevent History’s End
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
'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.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
'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.
Recenzii
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
Accessible and convincing
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
Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty . . . The key insight, or provocation, of Slow Down is to give the lie to we-can-have-it-all green capitalism . . . In place of a command economy, Saito puts forth a model based on local experimentation
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
Saito has emerged as the [degrowth] movement's public face . . . His uncompromising provocations are undoubtedly part of the appeal . . . Even degrowth's sceptics may find that Saito's examples of grassroots organising sound agreeably democratic and improvisational . . . such experiments offer something crucial: an enlarged sense of what's possible
Saito unites Marxism with ecology and lights a path out of our present crisis. A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time
This necessary and energizing 21st Century manifesto is a truth mirror inviting us to see ourselves and our place in the metastatic growth engine that is our current economic system. Saito is a well-read soothsayer -- one who loves this world, who has done his homework, and who is eager to share a viable way forward
A masterpiece
In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote
Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism's ability to solve the problems people see around them, whether caring for the country's growing older population, stemming rising inequality or mitigating climate change . . . His vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests
A richly researched, deftly wrought manifesto . . . The acuity of Saitō's argument lies in his defense of degrowth as the only viable option to combat climate change
A glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times . . . Saito challenges us not to just think in terms of numbers, but for a new way of life in a different civilisation . . . SLOW DOWN is a major contribution to the fields of degrowth, Marxist ecology, and ecosocialism
Saito's book taps into deep concern about runaway global heating and dire threats to our life-sustaining biosphere . . . his connection of Marxism, particularly identifying the importance of production and the exploitation of labour in the fight for the future of the planet for a wide audience is welcome
Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone-even when describing the most alarming aspects of the climate crisis-are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation and that 'green capitalism is a myth.' A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis
Accessible and convincing
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
Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty . . . The key insight, or provocation, of Slow Down is to give the lie to we-can-have-it-all green capitalism . . . In place of a command economy, Saito puts forth a model based on local experimentation
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
Saito has emerged as the [degrowth] movement's public face . . . His uncompromising provocations are undoubtedly part of the appeal . . . Even degrowth's sceptics may find that Saito's examples of grassroots organising sound agreeably democratic and improvisational . . . such experiments offer something crucial: an enlarged sense of what's possible
Saito unites Marxism with ecology and lights a path out of our present crisis. A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time
This necessary and energizing 21st Century manifesto is a truth mirror inviting us to see ourselves and our place in the metastatic growth engine that is our current economic system. Saito is a well-read soothsayer -- one who loves this world, who has done his homework, and who is eager to share a viable way forward
A masterpiece
In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote
Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism's ability to solve the problems people see around them, whether caring for the country's growing older population, stemming rising inequality or mitigating climate change . . . His vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests
A richly researched, deftly wrought manifesto . . . The acuity of Saitō's argument lies in his defense of degrowth as the only viable option to combat climate change
A glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times . . . Saito challenges us not to just think in terms of numbers, but for a new way of life in a different civilisation . . . SLOW DOWN is a major contribution to the fields of degrowth, Marxist ecology, and ecosocialism
Saito's book taps into deep concern about runaway global heating and dire threats to our life-sustaining biosphere . . . his connection of Marxism, particularly identifying the importance of production and the exploitation of labour in the fight for the future of the planet for a wide audience is welcome
Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone-even when describing the most alarming aspects of the climate crisis-are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation and that 'green capitalism is a myth.' A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis