A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can we redistribute or secure meaningful work without growth? There is not yet a concrete ‘economics of degrowth’. Lamentably, Keynesianism is the most powerful tool the Left, even the Marxist Left, has for dealing with issues of policy. But this is an economics of the 1930s when unlimited expansion was still possible and desirable.
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Das Netzwerk Care Revolution veröffentlicht einen lesenswerten Artikel über den Zusammenhang von Degrowth und Care. https://care-revolution.org/aktuelles/care-revolution-und-degrowth-teil-i/
The signs from the Degrowth-Conference having disappeared from the walls of the portentous building of Corvinus University, and the streets of Budapest emptied from the stalls and the babble of the Degrowth-Week, the time is ripe for another evaluation-round. The conference can be assessed from diverse perspectives – with disparate outcomes, I suspect. Even if I am relatively new to the Degrow...
Die Krise der gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse ist auch eine Krise der gesellschaftlichen ReProduktionsverhältnisse. Dies ist der Ausgangspunkt der queer-feministischen Kritik an den alternativen Ansätzen, die unter den Schlagworten Green New Deal, Postwachstum oder Solidarische Ökonomie verhandelt werden. Während die Strategien des Green New Deal auf eine ökologische Modernisierung der Industriepolitik abzielen, stellen Postwachstumsdebatte und Solidarische Ökonomien [...]
