Talk:Capital in the Anthropocene

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Did you know... that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses" in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 00:00, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 2020 non-fiction book Capital in the Anthropocene by Marxist academic Kohei Saito was an unexpected commercial success in Japan, selling over half a million copies? Source: NHK, Guardian
- ALT1: ... that Marxist academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as "the new opium of the masses" in his 2020 non-fiction book Capital in the Anthropocene? Source: Guardian
- Reviewed: Geliyoo

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:34, 15 September 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Date, size, copyvio spotcheck, neutrality, QPQ, hooks, neutrality, all good. I might quibble about wanting to see more of a reception, in particular, academic reviews, but it's probably too early for many of these to appear yet, and GNG is likely satisified. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:35, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The book will be published in English by CUP as 'Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism'. Should the article title change accordingly? Mahlermad (talk) 16:51, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Marx in the Anthropocene is actually an entirely separate book, despite its similar title. Per Saito in the acknowledgements of Marx in the Anthropocene: Some of the main ideas were developed during the preparation of my previous book Hitoshinsei no Shihonron (Capital in the Anthropocene) (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2020), which turned out to be unexpectedly popular in Japan, selling half a million copies. I owe its great success to my editor Yuka Hattori, who devoted an enormous amount of time and energy to the book. Part of the current book can be regarded as a more rigorous and academic version of the Japanese book, and its clarity comes from her editorial assistance. Obviously, the current book is not a translation of the previous Japanese book. Rather, it builds on wholly new arguments with a more careful reading of materials and the reconstruction of key debates on Marxian ecology in recent years. Morgan695 (talk) 00:21, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]