Kohei Saito: Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus

In the organizer's words:

The Japanese philosopher and political economist Kohei Saito is one of the world's best-known economic thinkers. His book "Systemsturz" sold over half a million copies in Japan alone.
In The End of Progress, he draws a sobering conclusion: parts of the environment that ensured our prosperity have already been destroyed. Authoritarian forces and wars are sweeping the world, while economic growth in the global North is stagnating. Our future will not be characterized by acceleration, but by scarcity, destabilization and natural disasters. Saito's answer to this is radical and uncomfortable: a rethought planned economy that focuses not on growth but on survival. A conversation about the end of the myth of progress and the question of which freedoms we can still save in the ruins of capitalism. Translated by Sarah King, moderated by Gert Scobel