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Kohei Saito
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Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a leading contemporary Marxist thinker. His most recent book, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020), has sold more than half a million copies in Japan and sparked an international debate about whether a revolutionary transformation of the global capitalist system is necessary to address the global climate crisis. (It was published in English as Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto in January 2024.) Saito’s previous book, Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017), which creatively explored the ecological dimension of Marx’s thought and its contemporary relevance, won the Deutscher Memorial Prize. He is also a Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD) fellow.