'To bring Red and Green together . Marx in the Anthropocene directs attention first at environmentalists, then at Marxists, and concludes with a synthesis, making the case for degrowth communism. Throughout the text, the central figure is Marx himself, whom Saito recasts as a deeply ecological thinker and one who argues that destroying the environment is an inherent feature of capitalism. While drawing on familiar texts such as Capital and Critique of the Gotha Program, Saito's most original contribution to the ecological Marx is to uncover what he calls Marx's 'ecological notebooks' - largely compiled after the publication of Capital - documenting his particular attention to the natural sciences, the idea of a steady-state metabolism, and non-Western societies. Saito argues that Marx was on his way to developing a theory towards degrowth communism and away from the more productivist and Promethean Marx that has been the more popular conception of Marx and Marxism.' Los Angeles Review of Books.