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.
Read the whole article in the New InternationalistHistorical roots of current debates on sustainable degrowth The future of economic growth is one of the decisive challenges of the twenty-first century. Though beginning at different times in different places, during the last two centuries, overall global economic growth has profoundly transformed life of humans and of the rest of nature. Today, societies, economies, and cultures are essentia...
What is capitalism? A kind of state? An institution? Some values? A power structure? Ideology? A Culture? What governs capitalism? Supply and demand Invisible hand Enclosure of land The drive to expand Market mechanism Class schism Racism The moral virtue of productivism. Innovation! Invest! Impress! Progress! Entrepreneurial quest for Technological success in Pursuit ...
Interview mit dem Leipziger Verein Ökolöwe Der Ökolöwe – Umweltbund Leipzig e.V. ging vor mehr als 25 Jahren aus der Naturschutzbewegung in Leipzig hervor und will auf mehreren Ebenen und in zahlreichen Projekten Ressourcen schonendere Strukturen voranbringen. Beispielsweise in den Bereichen Verkehr, Schutz der Artenvielfalt, Konsum, sowie Stärkung bürgerschaftlichen Engagements. Der Verein ist ein Unterstützer der [...]
