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i primi due capitoli abbastanza deludenti, mi sembra che stia attribuendo la causa dei cambiamenti climatici allo stile di vita individuale occidentale piuttosto che ad un problema sistemico di consumo eccessivo causato dai bisogni del mantenimento del capitalismo

It’s fine, some of the ideas are good. I get increasingly agitated every time he talks about *what marx really meant.* It started to feel like he was applying his own views on to Marx and then attempting to create a convincing argument for why Marx would have agreed. I really think he should have just claimed some ideas as his own, or as ideas of more contemporary theorists.

Audiobooking. I don’t feel like they do a good enough job of defining some of the key concepts, especially “green keynesianism” felt like it lacked clarity.

Finora nulla di rivoluzionario

It's admirable that Saitō wants to rewrite Marx's legacy, but to base the entirety of his thought on unpublished material seems like a bit of a cop out to me. Even if Marx's thinking did transform into a more egalitarian and less eurocentric theory of economy late in his life, it transformed too late--The letter that Saitō cites as the "culmination" of his thought was written just two years before his death

Listening to the audiobook. Depressing but important. It's definitely weird to have a mainstream author cite world systems theory in his work lol, really bringing my international relations education to life

COVID, yay (nay)

I'm not sure how we got into the literary analysis of Marx's writing?

I read Anthropocene and think Green

Mini sub-chapters saving my life here

I think I understand doom-reading now

once again: very much enjoying the audiobook even though the audiobook is somewhat of a wild card for me. it feels like a very long podcast series on the topic in that regard - you can take pauses and breaks without running into issues and still hear some new info when you return to it.

The amount of reading I've accidentally done on Marx in the past year is... Uh. Unexpected. Once again I don't really feel equipped to really do much with this knowledge I could be gaining - maybe it's time for a Kapital debrief next year 🙃

idk why i added this to my reading list.. interesting but not what i usually read so.. i’m dropping this..

Gotta say I would have fully zoned out of reading this by now were it not for the narrator. Shout out to Alexander Gamnitzer - engaging enough to not be distracting.

[ listening to the German audiobook but own the English physical book ]

Don't ask me how I fully confused this book with something else entirely but given that this wasn't had in mind, I'm enjoying it a lot so far. I don't think I could read this in the physical form because it's not the type of nonfiction I usually grasp well when reading, so this is a great middle ground.

I don't understand the economy and at this point I'm scared to ask

No es conclusivo en la teoría que plantea, es más un discurso general, muchas veces repetitivo

Er is wütend und bereit es jedermann’s Problem zu mache

Intresting so far!

En la versió tigre de paper

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Graeber mention :,)

Promising start.

Already off to a great start just in the intro.

Permanently affecting spatial ecology…

Palm oil, lithium, cobalt… Plunder.

I am finding this very slow and nearly painful. A whole chapter on Marx's late-life research notes where the author talks about his & others' work on an independent project. Could do with less history of Marx's ideas and more about what the degrowth manifesto actually asks.