Kohei SaitoSlow Down
How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and the youngest ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the Marxist tradition. He is an editor on MEGA, an ongoing project to publish critical editions of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Slow Down was a huge bestseller on publication and has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in climate economics in Japan.
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
