Slow Down

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

By: Kohei Saito

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Paperback | 29 April 2025 | Edition Number 1

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'Simply indispensible'

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'Necessary and energising'

JOHN VAILLANT, author of FIRE WEATHER

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS

In SLOW DOWN, award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito shows us how nothing but a transformation of our economic life can save us from climate collapse. Drawing on a revelatory new reading of Karl Marx's enigmatic final writings, he argues that capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment and that the future must belong to degrowth communism, a fair and humane existence within the limits of nature. There is no alternative: the endless acceleration of capital has run out of road. We must slow down.

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Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty - NEW YORKER

Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE - in short, to all of us

Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today

A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time

That rare hybrid among ideological manifestos: It opens new insights into an existing ideology while uplifting something distinct of its own - SALON

Saito's vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests - NEW YORK TIMES

A masterpiece

In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by SLOW DOWN . . . is a much-needed antidote - Asia Book Awards 2021

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