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Kohei Saito draws on new materials from the complete works of Marx and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe) to propose an alternative identified as “degrowth communism.” The book reframes debates on society and nature and supports imagining a post-capitalist society beyond the failures of twentieth-century socialism.","Marx in the Anthropocene  \nFacing global climate crisis, Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. Marx in the Anthropocene explains why Marx’s ecology had to be marginalized, and even suppressed by Marxists after his death, throughout the 20th century. Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism, however, revivesin the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Kohei Saito offers a wholly novel idea of Marx’s alternative to capitalism that should be adequately characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new light on recent debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the 20th century.  \nSaito Kohei is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. His book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017) won the Deutscher Memorial Prize. His second book, Hitoshinseino Shihonron [Capital in the Anthropocene](2020), has sold over 500,000 copies in Japan and received the Asia Book Award, 2021.  \nMarx in the Anthropocene  \nTowards the Idea of Degrowth Communism  \nKohei Saito  \nUniversity Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA  \n477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia  \n314 to 321, 3rd Floor, Plot No.3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi 110025, India  \n103 Penang Road, \\#05–06/07, Visioncrest Commercial, Singapore 238467 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.  \nIt furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.  \n[www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title: www.cambridge.org/9781108844154](title: www.cambridge.org/9781108844154)[ ](title: www.cambridge.org/9781108844154)© Kohei Saito 2022  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2022 Printed in India  \nA catalogue recordfor this publication is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-1-108-84415-4 Hardback ISBN 978-1-009-36618-2 Paperback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nFor Teinosuke Otani  \nMy teacher, devotedfriend  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements ix  \nList of Abbreviations xiii  \nIntroduction 1  \nPart I Marx’s Ecological Critique of Capitalism and Its Oblivion  \n1. Marx’s Theory of Metabolism in the Age of Global Ecological Crisis 13  \n2. The Intellectual Relationship between Marx and Engels Revisited from an Ecological Perspective 43  \n3. Lukács’s Theory of Metabolism as the Foundation  \nof Ecosocialist Realism 73  \nPart II A Critique of Productive Forces in the  \nAge of Global Ecological Crisis  \n4. Monism and the Non-identity of Nature 103  \n5. The Revival of Utopian Socialism and the Productive Forces of Capital 136  \nPart III Towards Degrowth Communism  \n6. Marx as a Degrowth Communist: The MEGA and the  \nGreat Transformation after 1868 171  \nviii | Contents  \n7. The Abundance of Wealth in Degrowth Communism 216  \nConclusion 245  \nReferences 251  \nIndex 268  \nAcknowledgements  \nWhile working towards the completion of this project since 2017, I have received generous assistance in various ways from scholars and friends all over the world. 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