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Slow Down

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

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Slow Down

By: Kohei Saito
Narrated by: Kohei Saito, Troy Glasgow
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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.©2024 Kohei Saito (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited Environment Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Science Society Capitalism Socialism Economic disparity Taxation Economic Inequality

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Critic reviews

'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.' (Slavoj Žižek, author of VIOLENCE and THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY)

'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.' (Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of PALO ALTO)
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Before listening to this book I considered myself an eco-modernist, but it has gone some way to persuading me to seeing eco-socialism as the answer to climate and environmental destruction, poverty and inequality. It has given me plenty to think about.

Thought provoking and hopeful

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Narrator haa a speech impediment, arrogant and moralising tone. Preferred listening to saito even if English isn't his first language

Readable but unlistenable

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