MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
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
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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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