Facing global climate crisis Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly
demonstrates its importance than ever. Marx in the Anthropocene explains why Marx's ecology had
to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the 20th
century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism however revives in the Anthropocene against
dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works
of Marx and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe) Kohei Saito offers a wholly novel idea of
Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately characterized as degrowth communism.
This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new light on recent debates on the
relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a post-capitalist
society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the 20th century--
