The left's strange bedfellows Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable s...
One of the most controversially discussed key tracks during the 5th International Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest was “Degrowth and other social movements”. Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future? On one hand, the notion of “degrowth movement(s)” was rigorously criticized for fragmenting the political struggle...
von Frigga Haug Auf dem Kapitalismuskongress von Attac im Jahre 2009 plädierte Heiner Geissler in der Abschlussveranstaltung für eine Ökodiktatur. Schließlich war er aus Besorgnis auch um die ökologischen Probleme der Gesellschaft selbst als prominentes CDU-Mitglied in attac eingetreten und warb jetzt dafür, die etwa 2000 Versammelten möchten in diesem Sinn agieren. Im wachsenden Empörungslä...
