Do we go for a costly supply chain with a high-interest loan, only to be abandoned after a year? Or, do we bear with a regime of uncertain supplies and attempt to negotiate alternative trade contracts with traditional partners to reduce that uncertainty, emphasising on a path of ‘temporary’ austerity?
Kohei Saito is an associate professor at Tokyo University and an erudite Marxist scholar. Not a candidate for a best-seller in the non-fiction book world, you might think. But you would be wrong in this case.
<strong>Michael Roberts</strong> reviews <em>Marx in the Anthropocene: towards the idea of degrowth communism</em> by Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp300)
Although capitalism promises a cheap, efficient path to plenty, it delivers a costly, privatized system based on impossible inputs in a finite natural world.