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"Degrowth Communism" will lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement (jacobin.com)
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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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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

one of the articles arguments being "well once we have space travel the ecological limits of earth will be irrelevant so there's no need to stop growth at any time" already disqualifies it.

also hilarious how even the people more sympathetic to de-growth on here imagine it as a world where you just get a new smartphone every 5 years instead of every year. like even imagining a world without them is too much, even though we haven't even had them for two decades

[-] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

also hilarious how even the people more sympathetic to de-growth on here imagine it as a world where you just get a new smartphone every 5 years instead of every year

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