I suppose there is also the possibility that the author knows damn well that they're lifting ideas from anarchist authors and crediting them to Marx and is doing a plagiarism while assuming a general reading audience isn't going to notice. They certainly didn't produce sufficient quotes or citations from Marx other than their own assertions to prove otherwise.
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Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy by E. Gabriella Coleman
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Should also mention: there's a few items in the translation, like conversions from Celsius to Fahrenheit that are just wrong and few times where technical terminology seems to be using definitions that just don't match anything I've ever heard any other writer use (Saitō uses a definition of accelerationism that just seems wrong). But that could just be the fault of the translator not having a solid foundation in any of these terms.
LordBowlich reviewed Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō
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The author is in dire need of a literary review.
Slow Down has an extraordinarily myopic view of theory that doesn't appear to have incorporated anything (maybe a little Graeber) that has been written outside of Marx in the last 150 years. The author attempts to reproduce anarchism from first principles relying on some unpublished musing by Marx near the end of his life rather than just reading the writers who've already addressed these ideas, at length, and much better. But that would require them to stick their head outside of the sphere of academic Marxism.
If you dumped all of Chapter 4 (Marx and the Anthropocene) and struck everything that mentions Marx from the text... you might have a descent essay outlining some of the broader ideas in the area Degrowth. But still nothing that a reading of Wikipedia wouldn't have gotten you.
I guess if you have any …
The author is in dire need of a literary review.
Slow Down has an extraordinarily myopic view of theory that doesn't appear to have incorporated anything (maybe a little Graeber) that has been written outside of Marx in the last 150 years. The author attempts to reproduce anarchism from first principles relying on some unpublished musing by Marx near the end of his life rather than just reading the writers who've already addressed these ideas, at length, and much better. But that would require them to stick their head outside of the sphere of academic Marxism.
If you dumped all of Chapter 4 (Marx and the Anthropocene) and struck everything that mentions Marx from the text... you might have a descent essay outlining some of the broader ideas in the area Degrowth. But still nothing that a reading of Wikipedia wouldn't have gotten you.
I guess if you have any ML friends who insist on some kind of Marxist orthodoxy for their praxis -- you can give them this book.
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Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō
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In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives …
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Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey
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