By Diana O’Dwyer Kohei Saito’s recent book, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, is one of two recent Saito books to be translated into English. The second, Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth, was a bestseller in Japan and is due to be published in
  • quarrk [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    TL;DR this Marx quote from The Paris Commune, applied to industry rather than state machinery:

    [T]he working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

    Capitalist industry serves the interest of capital. Any post-revolution society must necessarily examine the conditions in each industry, and each industry as such, and determine what changes could or should be made.