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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We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly...
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/
Interview mit Christine Bauhardt Prof. Dr. Christine Bauhardt ist Professin für Gender und Globalisierung an der Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse und Geschlechterverhältnisse, Feministische Ökonomiekritik sowie Migration und Stadtentwicklung. Für die Interview-Reihe des Stream towards Degrowth hat sie unsere Fragen auf Englis...
