Book Review: Kohei Saito, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. Translated by Brian Bergstrom. Astra House. 2024.
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: It has been decades now since links between capitalism and ecological crisis have been the subject of the direct and sustained attention of radical theorists within anarchist and Marxist milieus. Today, it is finally easy to see how far advanced writers like Murray Bookchin and James O’Connor were in their basic sensibilities about the relationship between capitalism and ecology. In fact, our slowness to grasp their insights has even been part of the problem of ecology. One would like to say, “if only we were faster to recognize the incompatibility of capitalism with ecology,” but perhaps recognizing that fact sooner would not have made it any easier to abolish capitalism and its deadly logic in the world.
Source: Theory in Action
Author: Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Institution: University of Illinois at Springfield
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404109465