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The central case in Saito’s new book is that the more Marx learned of the metabolic rift, the more he embraced ecological and anti-colonial positions until ultimately he arrived at “degrowth communism.”

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The process of diamond and gemstone commodification masks the exploitation of labour and the extractive practices that wreck the ecology and impair the health of local populations, and have a particularly debilitating effect under neoliberal extractive regimes and regulations.

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Beautiful, powerful, and edifying, Stephen Buhner’s book is recommended to everyone who has felt the full scope of the environmental crisis and wants, at the very least, to encounter someone else who has faced the abyss of grief and has some insights about how to live with it.
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Arguing for transitional transformative progressive change should be a joint undertaking. That includes the reduction in the size of or elimination of environmentally destructive sectors as well as democratizing the relations of production. We need both.
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As the new Co-Editors in Chief of CNS, Leigh and Danny are committed to further extending the journal’s anti-racism and anti-war themes, extending an ecosocialist ecofeminist lens to analyze current conflicts, and advancing a democratic, ecosocialist politics.