Fabrizio Menardo

Oct 5, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Jason Hickel |Suzanne Kröger |George Monbiot |Fabrizio Menardo

A Marxist who turned to ecology in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito has gained international attention with his work on degrowth communism. In an interview with the Green European Journal, Saito explains what socialism and environmentalism can learn from each other – and why economically stagnant, pandemic-stricken Japan was fertile ground for degrowth ideas.