Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto by Kohei Saito explores some ideas that are interesting but would never work. It does make a great deal of sense that to reverse the climate crisis, and other crises as well, we should all do with less and slow down our economies. For Saito, the answers are found in theories Marx jotted down at the end of his life. Now Marxists are picking apart their founder’s death bed marginalia for new articles of faith to rescue moribund Communism. Saito wants a type of grassroots commune/communism to spring up in various parts of the world. This seems like a fairy tale: for this to work, we would need to be different creatures.
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