Reply To: Kohei Saito
An interview with Saito
Saito developed a “unique way of reading Marx”, he says, as a “degrowth ecological communist”.
Saito says. Everyone on the planet should have access to the basic things we need to live – electricity, water, education – but “we need to come up with a vision where mass production, mass consumption and mass waste can be avoided.”
Saito writes, “Marx came to see the plunder of the natural environment as a manifestation of the central contradiction of capitalism.”
Marx’s idea of communism changed significantly, and was no longer growth-driven. “The pre-capitalist society had a unique way of communal regulations of land,” Saito says, “and they also imposed various rules on their production and consumption which realised a more steady-state of sustainable production.”
And a lot more statements…