Capital in the Anthropocene
by Kōhei Saitō
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Capital in the Anthropocene (Japanese: 人新世の「資本論」, romanized: Hitoshinsei no "Shihonron") is a 2020 non-fiction book by Japanese academic Kohei Saito. Drawing from writings on ecology and natural science by Karl Marx, the book presents a Marxist argument for degrowth as a means of mitigating climate change. Capital in the Anthropocene was an unexpected commercial success in Japan, selling over half a million copies. An English translation was published in 2023, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.
Subjects
- capitalism
- degrowth
- environmentalism
- Marxism
- anti-capitalism
- criticism of capitalism