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Brian Bergstrom, Kohei Saito: Slow Down (Astra House) 4 stars

Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to …

Good stuff, but a bit wrapped up in exegesis of Marx

4 stars

Good on assessing/criticizing 'green growth', left-accelerationism, SDGs, and the like. Also good on discussing Japanese thinkers and whether Japan's lost decade(s) count as degrowth. Gets a bit bogged down in analyzing whether Marx was leaning away from productivism in his later years, based on reading his unpublished notebooks. Sketches out a pretty plausible model for what degrowth communism could look like, but then gets a bit wrapped up in Chenoweth's 3.5% as all we need to achieve our ends :(