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The case against growth
JOHN GREEN is persuaded by an argument for the relevance of Marx’s late writings to the looming environmental catastrophe
ANTICIPATED BY MARX: An environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region resulting from exploitation of crude oil, May 2019
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BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Marx in the Anthropocene — Towards the Idea of a Degrowth Communism
By Kohei Saito, Cambridge University Press, £29.99
WITH the unfolding climate and environmental catastrophe, there has been a rising interest in what Marx and Engels had to say on such issues.
While one clearly can’t expect these two great 19th century thinkers to have foreseen, let alone commented upon, the human capacity for self-immolation, their holistic approach to understanding the material world and the way societies develop is certainly still relevant today.
In this refreshing and highly significant work, Kohei Saito draws on only recently published writings from Marx’s later notebooks on science and nature which reveal a less Promethean Marx.
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