Where Will Greece Be in 2060?
If anything can describe citizens’ feelings in Greece about the current economic situation and their future, it’s probably anxiety and, in many cases, outright pessimism. And that should not come as a surprise. The economic crisis of 2008, the pandemic, and the inflation of the past four years have contributed to the creation of an […]
Saito on Marx (III): towards a degrowth communism?
K.Saito Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Cambridge University Press (2023) I used to teach a course on the philosophy of the social sciences. One of my classes began with Willie Sutton’s famous response to the question of why he robbed banks: because that is where the money is! An orthodox […]
The government’s three unconvincing arguments on wages
V. Kouforizou, M. Koumerta, E. Tsakalotos, C. Tsitsikas According to almost all the polls, one of the main problems that citizens face in Greece is the cost-of-living crisis, as a result of inflated prices and inadequate incomes[1]. The government argues that things are not so dark, and that compared to 2019, there is an […]
Saito on Marx (II): modern-day productivism?
K.Saito Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Cambridge University Press (2023) In 1980 the left-wing publisher Verso published Bill Warren’s Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism. As the title suggests, the book offered a positive revaluation of imperialism in both colonial and post-colonial times as a progressive force, in promoting development and […]
Five questions for the new finance minister in Greece
In many universities around the world, after the election of a professor to an important chair, the term begins with an inaugural public lecture. This is seen as an opportunity to outline key aspects of their research and how they see their new role, the priorities and directions to be pursued. If this is […]
Saito on Marx (I): towards a greening of historical materialsim
K.Saito Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Cambridge University Press (2023) Saito’s book offers a re-reading of Marx’s political economy and attempts to reconstruct a Marxism for the twentieth century. At the same time, the author suggests that such a project is indispensable if the Left is going to be […]