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#343 "Dark Socialism": Kohei Saito on surviving (and thriving) within the ruins of disaster capitalism
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A world without climate barbarism is no longer on the table, says Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. In his latest groundbreaking book "Dark Socialism" Saito argues that we need to face head-on a future of disastrous climate overshoot – and develop a socialist project that can deliver hope in times of natural disasters, permanent scarcity and end-time fascism. Kohei Saito joins Dissens to talk about the exhaustion of liberal democracies, capitalist elites aligning more and more with fascists and what a socialist vision for dark times might look like.
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Kohei Saito, born in 1987, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He is famous for his best-selling book “Slow Down” (dt. ”Systemsturz”), where he argued for a post-capitalist democracy to prevent climate breakdown. In his lates book "Dark Socialism" (dt. "Am Ende des Fortschritts") Saito grapples with the reality, that climate action failed and ecological collapse is inevitable - he envisions a socialism that is suitable to face a future not being shaped by abundance and emancipation, but rather by natural disasters and permanent scarcity.
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Mach Dissens möglich! Werde jetzt Fördermitglied auf Steady und unterstütze damit die Arbeit von Dissens-Host Lukas sowie Inken und Valentin von der "Was Tun?"-Crew.
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Dissens verlost ein Exemplar von Kohei Saitos "Am Ende des Fortschritts: Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus" unter allen Fördermitgliedern des Podcasts.
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DOS-88 – City Lights: https://youtu.be/egKdVELkKVI
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