Article Author: Brian M. Napoletano
Was Karl Marx a Degrowth Communist?
June 1, 2024
Brian M. Napoletano considers the implications of recent work by Kohei Saito, in which Saito argues that Marx’s thought progressed from early productivism to middle-stage ecosocialism, and finally to degrowth communism. Napoletano concludes, that in arguing for an artificially contrived “epistemological break” between Marx’s supposed early growth-oriented perspective and his later purported “degrowth communism,” Saito fails to recognize Marx’s actual consistent emphasis throughout his work on a dialectically conceived process of sustainable human development, requiring a true social and ecological revolution.
The Communitarian Revolutionary Subject and the Possibilities of System Change
March 1, 2023
David Barkin is a distinguished professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México He is recognized for his theory of Radical Ecological Economics and, in 2016, was awarded a research… READ MORE
Half-Earth Socialism and the Path Beyond Capital
February 1, 2023
Brian M. Napoletano is an assistant professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (Center for Investigations in Environmental Geography) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous… READ MORE
Interrogating the Cultural Production of Mexico
January 1, 2020
Brian M. Napoletano is an assistant professor at the Center for Investigations in Environmental Geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research is focused on developing the geography… READ MORE