Fortunately for Russian society, the crusade against classical culture and history initiated by the authorities is being thwarted by everyday practice, which is dominated by completely different trends. In the Internet age, censorship is extremely inefficient. A kind of cultural war has unfolded, in which one’s state acts as an occupying force, and citizens resort to guerrilla tactics.
Gareth Dale Kohei Saito’s 2020 book Capital in the Anthropocene became a surprise bestseller in Japan, demonstrating a wider thirst for anti-capitalist analyses of environmental catastrophe and a popular openness to degrowth-oriented solutions.
The Russian military blogger and propagandist Maxim Fomin, aka Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a bomb attack on April 2, 2023, in a St. Petersburg cafe. The police have arrested Darya Trepova who had handed Tatarsky the booby-trapped statuette that killed him. Two leading commentators, Moskovski Komsomolets senior columnist Mikhail Rostovsky, and Petr Akopov of RIA Novosti
In ‘Marx in the Anthropocene,’ author Kohei Saito examines the environmentalism of Marx and Engels, drawing on their extensive collection of unpublished works.