Moreover, although digital technologies were expected to strengthen democracy and broaden prosperity, their popularisation has been accompanied by burgeoning right-wing populism and authoritarianism, alongside ever-accelerating transfers of wealth towards the global rich. Meanwhile, despite decades of knowledge about climate change, global fossil fuel use keeps rising.
This direction of travel was not and is not inevitable."

#degrowth #postcapitalism #sufficiency

https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/06/04/how-can-tech-make-the-planet-better-not-worse/

"We have lived under, in my view, a paradigm that has produced a lot of toxic consequences because it was both based on a bunch of assumptions about how the world works that were never true, and it was weaponized to advance the interests of a very small group of people. "
#degrowth #postcapitalism #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy

What if Everything We Know About the Economy Is Dead Wrong? | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/211507/everything-know-economy-dead-wrong

RE: https://ursal.zone/@botsocialista/116717079533018451

If we ever do get such news in English North America, I have yet to see it. #ThomasPiketty does, however, show in continental Europe now and then, taunting with crazy notions like:

"A report coordinated by the economist suggests: it is possible to eliminate poverty, reduce working hours by half and curb global warming. Prerequisites: frontal attack on inequality and political and economic transformation. What are the paths?"

#postcapitalism

Spanish Robin Hood Enric Duran on Capitalism and “Integral Revolution”
by Michel Bauwens

ARTICLE DATE: March 24, 2014

https://www.shareable.net/spanish-robin-hood-enric-duran-on-capitalism-and-integral-revolution/

#CivilDisobedience #GlobalCommons #FairCoin #SocialCoop #SocialCoopGovernance #GlobalEconomics #IntegralRevolution. #Degrowth #SolidarityEconomics #Catalan #CatalanIntegralCooperative #Cooperative #IntegralEconomics. #GrassrootsFinance #EnricDuran #Anticapitalism #GlobalFinance #Activism #EconomicOpportunity #PostCapitalism #FinancialDisobedience #Capitalism #Cryptocurrency #GlobalSouth #NonHierarchicalSociety #FairCredit #FairFunds #FairMarket #FairCoop #Cryptocurrencies #Local #Localization #Relocalization #Communalism #Municipalism #SocialEcology

Fascism, genocide, ecological collapse - symptoms of a system designed to fail.
We keep fighting crises, not the cause.
It’s time to confront capitalism itself.

Read more: 👉 https://ecosocialassembly.wordpress.com/current-affair-comment/fascism-is-a-symptom-capitalism-is-the-disease/

#AntiFascism #EcoSocial #PostCapitalism #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #SystemChange #EcoSocialAssembly

📨 In the latest Cycles Hyped No More #newsletter:

Why Don’t We Use Software Created by Local Monasteries? (Or, How to Thrive in a #PostCapitalism World)

We need to wrest software away from the Capitalists. We need other models, other forms of collectives which produce software—not to turn a profit, but to save men’s souls (metaphorically speaking of course).

This essay may start out in an odd place, but I *swear* it ends up in a good place you'll find intriguing. 😂

https://buttondown.com/theinternet/archive/why-dont-we-use-software-created-by-local-monasteries/

"A new narrative of public wealth"

Very interesting talk from Timothée Parique at ChangeNow. These 16 minutes are worth of your time to get a clear picture of the new economy we need because yes, "green capitalism is a story we tell to avoid changing the system." And it's a toxic story if I may.

I loved the sharp questioning of the corporate structures and I'm happy these words...

Lire la suite : https://evawissenz.com/A-new-narrative-of-public-wealth?s=mt

#postcapitalism #litterature #regeneration