Book Review Essay
The central case in Saito’s new book is that the more Marx learned of the metabolic rift, the more he embraced ecological and anti-colonial positions until ultimately he arrived at “degrowth communism.”
Beautiful, powerful, and edifying, Stephen Buhner’s book is recommended to everyone who has felt the full scope of the environmental crisis and wants, at the very least, to encounter someone else who has faced the abyss of grief and has some insights about how to live with it.
The Future is Degrowth recommends practical proposals for degrowth, and while the authors recommend a lot of things which would be vast improvements over what we have now, they don’t really know how it’s going to happen, and so what we can expect is a conflict-ridden and untidy process.
A review of The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a post-capitalist cooperative (2017), by George Dafermos
The story of Jonestown obscures that Guyana in the 1970s was the center of a little known Pan African movement that linked the Caribbean with African and African American political exiles in the fight against empire.
Pedagogy of Insurrection speaks to the ambiguity of Peter McLaren’s insurgent political philosophy: he describes himself as a revolutionary Marxist, a Roman Catholic socialist, and a critic of the state capitalism of the USSR, while defending the social-democratic Latin American governments associated with the “Pink Tide.”
Seasonal Workers makes the lives and livelihoods of agricultural workers visible within the geography of agro-industrial production, allowing us to confront the contradictions of a region symbolizing healthy eating through the paradigm of a Mediterranean diet that focuses on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, yet pits agricultural workers from three continents against one another.