Degrowth Archives • International Socialism

Degrowth and Marxism

Posted on 26th June 2024 by International Socialism

In September 2019, during a year of rising environmental activism punctuated by swelling climate strikes and Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, climate campaigner Greta Thunberg spoke to the United Nations Climate Action Summit.1 One of her most memorable lines was, “People are… Continue Reading →

Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”?

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

A review of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022) £29.99 Kohei Saito’s work on Marxism, socialism and ecology has become increasingly influential since his first book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital,… Continue Reading →