A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis

Kohei Saito says his aim in Marx in the Anthropocene is to ‘overcome the divide between Marxism and degrowth’. Photograph: Kazuhiro Igarashi

When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least some people in Japan to a new perspective on the climate crisis.

The cover of Marx in the Anthropocene Photograph: Courtesy of Kohei Saito