Marxism in the Anthropocene Degrowth Communism and Ecosocialist Strategy

Join Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books for a rebroadcast of a discussion on ecosocialism with Kohei Saito
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Kohei Saito's recent book Marx in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has spurred renewed interest in Marx’s ecological thought and ignited further controversy around a number of key debates within contemporary left eco-theory - most notably concerning disagreements between Marxist ecomodernism and what Saito dubs “degrowth communism.”
In this Spectre Live feature, Saito will be joined by prominent climate researcher and author Holly Jean Buck and Spectre ecosocialist editor Dan Boscov-Ellen in a discussion about Marxism, degrowth, technology, and left strategy.
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Speakers:

Kohei Saito is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of (in English) Karl Marx's Ecosocialism, Marx in the Anthropocene, and the forthcoming Slow Down: The Deceleration Manifesto.

Holly Jean Buck is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. She is an environmental social scientist whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate and energy technologies. She is the author of After Geoengineering (Verso, 2019) and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough (Verso, 2021), and holds a Ph.D in Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Dan Boscov-Ellen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His background is in environmental philosophy and critical theory. He is currently working on a book about the ethics of climate change, provisionally entitled Critical Climate Ethics: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis.
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