This is a very important contemporary marxist work imo (despite being published only this year). It’s VERY relevant to climate change, the question of production under socialism and communism. It’s also essential if you wanna have an idea of what Marx was up to (in terms of theory) in the late 1870s until his death bc Saito’s source for his arguments is the previously unpublished MEGA2 (which he worked on) and others’ work on MEGA2. Highly recommend it, though it is somewhat (prolly VERY) abstract/academic.
Oh I heard about this last year before the English translation had been released. Cool to see it’s here now, I’ll definitely take a look
I think there’s been a misunderstanding: Marx in the Anthropocene is not a translation. His previous book published in Japanese, Capital in the Anthropocene is a different work. The names are unfortunately similar so i’ve seen the confusion a few times, but Marx in the Anthropocene according to Saito is its own work. Some parts make the same arguments as Capital in the Anthropocene, but greatly expanded (more “scholarly / academic / theory” and less popular), but there’s a lot of stuff in MA that isn’t in CA.
Ah, I was under the impression the difference in title was just a weird translation choice. Checking the article I heard about it in last year it would seem that I did indeed misread and that it was saying this would be published followed by a translation of Capital in the Anthropocene, not that it was the translation. That makes your bit about it being more academic make more sense, I was a little confused by that since I remembered hearing that Capital in the Anthropocene had been fairly popular in Japan
