{"id":48351,"date":"2022-09-09T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:38:26","slug":"a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48351","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A new way of life\u2019: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kohei Saito\u2019s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English<\/p>\n<p>The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies \u201cemergency brakes\u201d to capitalism and devises a \u201cnew way of living\u201d, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and the environment has become a surprise bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism\u2019s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only \u201cdegrowth\u201d can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kohei Saito\u2019s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into EnglishThe climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies \u201cemergency brakes\u201d to capitalism and devises a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,2331,71,65,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-climate-crisis","category-culture","category-environment","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48352,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351\/revisions\/48352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}