impartial_fanboy [he/him]@hexbear.nettomarxism@hexbear.net•"Degrowth Communism" will lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movementEnglish
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6 months agoLeftists and bad slogans, name a better duo. The non primitivist degrowth people are generally pretty alright but those who take it literally are … scary. Obviously capitalist growth will have to cease, but society needs to be fundamentally reorganized which is going to take a lot of ‘growth’ in the productive forces. Because people conflate capitalist growth with technological development the arguments for degrowth sound asinine and they dismiss them out of hand.
However I just realized the article is cowritten by Leigh Phillips. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Jacobin would still publish something of his now but its disappointing nonetheless.
Well take a gander at his twitter but lets say he’s a fellow traveler of LaRouche. More importantly for this though, degrowth is a bit of a bugbear for him. He complains about it constantly so I wouldn’t believe he’s being honest about his criticism of Saito.