Vortrag von Kohei Saito • Diskussion mit Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Khurana
In recent years, there have been groundbreaking interpretations of Marx’s theory of freedom. Martin Hägglund’s “democratic socialism” revives the concept of “free disposable time” from The Grundrisse, while Bruno Leipold’s “socialist republicanism” highlights Marx’s consistent defense of freedom as non-domination.
According to Kohei Saito, both approaches to conceptualizing post-capitalist freedom are important, but they fall short of updating Marx’s vision of communism adequate to the Anthropocene, as they don’t sufficiently address the sphere of nature. The domination of nature, he will argue, is closely tied to the domination of fellow human beings, making it impossible to separate these spheres, especially in the age of the planetary ecological crisis.
Marx endeavored to move beyond his productivist and anthropocentric view of freedom, even in the 1870s. His notion of degrowth communism in the 1880s introduces a different kind of “ecological freedom,” which transcends the capitalistically constituted dualist worldview of society/nature, productive labor/unproductive nature, and freedom/necessity.
In this sense, Marx’s degrowth communism is to Saito the first attempt to propose an ecological and decolonial vision of freedom, which remained unfinished.
How to expand on its implications for the revival of critical theory and the collective survival on our finite planet Saito will discuss with Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana.
(IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Dates
July 2025
| Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
| |
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
