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I haven't read Saito's books, or looked too deeply into degrowth as a movement. I just read this article and thought it made some good arguments against what it claims are Saito's understandings of Marx. I'm not sure I agree with everything, but I thought it was interesting enough to share.

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[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

cowritten by Leigh Phillips.

Are they bad?

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Meh. Wrote an overrated book about central planning (thesis is that central planning is possible because Walmart and Amazon do it - of course central planning is possible but not for that reason, Phillips kinda misses the point) that spends a chapter devoted to shitting on Stalin.

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago
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