Kohei Saito offers a unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”. As Saito explains, Capital’s logic of infinite accumulation creates an irreparable rift with nature’s metabolism, ultimately culminating in catastrophic climate change.

In Marx, Saito finds a thinker deeply concerned with the ecological crisis, and one who (despite conventional takes on Marx), no longer believes that the overthrow of capitalism is inevitable. Ultimately, Saito calls for degrowth communism, a mode of production that will hopefully be the subject of part two of this series. Directed and edited by Seth Dalton. For more videos, visit http://www.empireinquirer.com