Varn Vlog: Matt Huber and Leigh Philips Respond to Saito's Degrowth Marxology

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His latest book is Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022). Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the co-author of The People's Republic of Walmart.

They discuss the problems as they see it with Kohei Saito's version of degrowth. You can find their article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/kohei-sai...


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