Facing
global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism
more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book
explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even
suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth
century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives
in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism.
Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx
and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel
idea of Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately
characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative interpretation
of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent debates on the
relationship between society and nature and invites readers to
envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the failure of
the actually existing socialism of the twentieth century.
