Ryuji Sasaki
ryujisasaki.bsky.social
Ryuji Sasaki
@ryujisasaki.bsky.social
Communist
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Just finished Kevin Anderson’s new book on colonialism, gender, and non-Western postcapitalism from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s great! I used to do book summaries on Twitter, but Bluesky doesn’t seem to encourage that stuff. Would there be interest in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the book?
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The claim that capitalism has been replaced by a new digital “feudal order” misreads the dynamics of today’s economy. Instead, our article of the week insists that capitalism endures, reorganized around rent, not production.

By @koheisaito.bsky.social & @ryujisasaki.bsky.social

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October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This paper outlines some of my core ideas about rentier capitalism. Please take a look!
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Oh damn, Kohei Saito has entered into the techno-feudalism debate and his argument aligns with what me and @bigblackjacobin have been saying for a long time: Stop saying techno-feudalism, this is called rentier capitalism, and it's the basis for techno-fascism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common
This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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"「マルクスはヨーロッパ中心主義」という批判はもう古い? インド、アルジェリア、ラテンアメリカ etc…実は西洋社会の外にも大きな関心を持っていたマルクス。『資本論』や『要綱』といった主要著作とも密接に関係するマルクスの思想の変遷を、「周縁」のテーマから一冊で捉えた名著が復刊!"

ケヴィン・B・アンダーソン/ 平子友長, 明石英人, 佐々木隆治, 斎藤幸平, 隅田聡一郎 訳 『周縁のマルクス [新版] ナショナリズム、エスニシティおよび非西洋社会について』
comingbook.honzuki.jp?detail=97849...
『周縁のマルクス[新版]』
●斎藤幸平さん推薦!<br /> 「脱成長コミュニズム」の始まりはこの本にある!<br /> <br...
comingbook.honzuki.jp
August 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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これ、英語圏の何かのリーダーかコンパニオンっぽいなあ。と思ったら、ケンブリッジの本だった。

目次を見ると、ベラミーフォスターもいるし、ムストもいるし、カリニコスやメッザドーラもいるし、簡便に議論をおさえるにも有用そう。

マルチェロ・ムスト 編
『マルクス・リバイバル キーワードと新解釈』
斎藤幸平・佐々木隆治 監訳、地平社、2025年9月刊行予定

www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784...

原著は、The Marx Revival : Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020)
マルクス・リバイバル マルチェロ・ムスト(編著) - 地平社
危機の時代に、マルクスを〈再発見〉する 貧困と不平等、気候危機、そして戦争。 資本主義をラディカルに分析したマルクスの思想が、いま新たな解釈とともに復権している。 世界的に知られる研究者… - 引用:版元ドットコム
www.hanmoto.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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危機の時代に、マルクスを〈再発見〉する

貧困と不平等、気候危機、そして戦争。
資本主義をラディカルに分析したマルクスの思想が、いま新たな解釈とともに復権している。
世界的に知られる研究者たちが、22の重要概念を解説。批判的で開かれた思考のために。

●日本語版オリジナルの序章「マルクスの理論的革命」を収録
●解説:斎藤幸平、佐々木隆治
August 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Many Marxists don’t understand the difference between value itself and the determination of value. The latter is literally what determines the former, not the same as the former.
July 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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マルクス入門読書会にて隅田聡一郎『国家に抗するマルクス』を読み終えたので打ち上げでタコスを食べた。次回からは、網野善彦『日本中世の非農業民と天皇』を読む予定。

この読書会でこれまで読んできた本。佐々木隆治『カール・マルクス』、『マルクスの物象化論(新版)』、田畑稔『増補新版 マルクスとアソシエーション』、アンダーソン『周縁のマルクス』、ポストン『時間・労働・支配』(途中で挫折中)、マルクス『資本主義的形態に先立つ諸形態』。
March 17, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Published early next year: Isaak Ilyich Rubin, Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value: Conceived as a Variorum Edition, trans. Susumu Takenaga.
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value. Conceived as a Variorum Edition - Historical Materialism
Isaak Ilyich Rubin Author: Isaak Ilyich Rubin Editor / Translator: Susumu Takenaga This book is an English translation of Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value, first published by Isaak Illich Rubin in 192...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Ultimately, the fundamental problem in the age of rentier capitalism is that the material basis of existing social stability is being totally weakened as the expropriation of surplus profit through the enclosure of the common becomes dominant and the state becomes explicitly complicit in it.
December 4, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Now available for pre-order: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads
In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the years 18...
www.versobooks.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Book is published! Everything you always wanted to know about property in German Idealism but were afraid to ask.
December 14, 2023 at 9:06 AM