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Red Green Labour reviews “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” by Kohei Saito

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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
308 pp, $29 pbk, ISBN 9781583676400
By Kohei Saito

Reviewed by Ted Benton for Red Green Labour

“This exceptionally clear and well-researched book is based on Saito’s dissertation, originally in German, and incorporates the results of his study of as-yet unpublished manuscripts and excerpt notebooks compiled during the last fifteen years of Marx’s life. Saito’s approach is closely aligned with that of Paul Burkett, John Bellamy Foster and their associates, well-known advocates of a view of Marx as an ecological thinker, who developed the concept of ‘metabolic rift’ to explain the contradictions between capitalism and external nature….”

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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

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