Sy Taffel

'It is high time to stop pretending - and claiming - degrowth is one thing, one huge all-encompassing framework that will fix the world. Instead, let’s focus on what it is that degrowth brings that the rest of political programs have missed so far: the ideology of growth, in all its socio-cultural, economic, material and political iterations, is the curse of our time. It is the most blatant expression of capitalism in the neoliberal globalised age, rooted so deeply into the political and cultural hegemony of our societies that it goes unnoticed, and is taken for granted, even by many of the most radical struggles. Centering growth provides a sharp tool to dismantle intersecting systems of oppression by targeting the core mechanism of capital accumulation.'

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https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Oct 13 at 7:53amWeb
Show threadSy Taffel2d ago

The obvious counterpoint to this is that non-degrowth (eco)socialism and anarchism have long criticised capital accumulation, however, they present different proposals for postcapitalist societies.

While there are certain areas where a democratised means of production and a planned economy overlap with mutual aid, decentralisation and conviviality, there are also clear tensions and incompatibilities.

It's a good thing that we're moving past the point where different authors lay claim to the real meaning of degrowth and then present a range of contradictory proposals that sit along an (eco) socialist/anarchist continuum.

But degrowth needs to (and in fairness, frequently does) go beyond a critique of growth.