11/13 Readings | The Late Marx and Degrowth Communism with Kohei Saito

Ricardo Lombera

Kohei Saito (Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024)

Primary text:

The most important writings from these final years, especially for scholars of the late Marx, include the following, listed in order of importance rather than chronology:

  1. The drafts and final letter that Marx wrote to the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich in February and March 1881
  2. The preface to the second Russian edition of The Communist Manifesto that Marx and Engels published in 1882
  3. The Critique of the Gotha Program that Marx published in 1875
  4. The Ethnological Notebooks that he kept during his readings.

Secondary text:

Kohei Saito, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Astra, 2024)