Interview: Alyssa Battistoni | Centre for Democratising Work Amelia Horgan spoke to Alyssa Battistoni about capitalism, freedom and morality.

“The politics of nature are everywhere in a way that lots of environmental types politics hasn’t understood, & that we should understand them as at least potentially anti-capitalist politics or as having a critique of capitalism within them.” #PostCapitalism
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Delinking Global South from Global North: Political Strategies for Disrupting the Globalized World Order Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...

“If we organise, if we delink, if we pair Northern #degrowth with Southern sovereignty, we can redirect the planet’s abundant resources away from imperial accumulation & toward collective flourishing.” #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth

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Welcome to Hell A world without limits

“This is the law of capitalism; the exponential bulldozing of one’s own limits.

This is a world where exploitation passes for innovation, where daylight robbery passes for business.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Welcome to Hell - @racheldonald.bsky.social
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When Women Forced Global Climate Talks to Face the Truth | Common Dreams ​Daniela Durán González’s words felt less like a procedural objection and more like an oracle speaking truth in the court of self-appointed climate policy gods.

“Reforesting the mind is an invitation to undo the dead matter logic that governs modern systems—the belief that separation from the Earth is natural, that endless extraction is progress, & that the future can be postponed.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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The second contradiction of capitalism The second contradiction of capitalism (SCC) is a foundational thesis of ecological Marxism and other radical, green traditions. It is among the earliest and most productive attempts to integrate p...

“With current technologies, a wind-hydro-solar economy could only be metabolically much smaller, & so a transition to a sustainable economy fuelled by renewables would have to be a #postgrowth & therefore a #postcapitalist transition.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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Enter “The Capitalist Hell” Where Harari contradicts his own anti-egalitarianism

“In other words, the system is sick, & it can’t be sustainably reformed into a friendly, fail-safe version.” #PostCapitalism

Enter “The Capitalist Hell”
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Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being Profound transformations in human beings are necessary if we are to exist in harmony with ourselves, other beings and nature. Only if such transformat…

“Profound transformations in human beings is necessary if we are to exist in harmony with ourselves, other beings & nature. Only if such transformations take place, can the deep social changes that #degrowth proponents call for to come about.” #PostCapitalism
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A New Book Smashes Idols of Economic Growth This excerpt from ‘Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology’ makes the case for faithful resistance to wanting more and more.

“…a #degrowth alternative would mean adopting what Pope Francis called a ‘happy sobriety’, ‘a new lifestyle marked by joyful simplicity’, rejecting the glitter of consumerism & ensuring that everyone has access to what they need to live a dignified life.” #PostCapitalism
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I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. Here's how Have you got a nagging sense that you're not doing enough to kick against capitalism? Try shrinking your economy.

For those that can choose to, fine. But we still need a collective power strategy to ensure a good life for all.

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Eco-Marxism and Prometheus Unbound: Capitalist versus Socialist Ecomodernism - Monthly Review

“The argument that conceives of endless economic growth/accumulation as the driving force in Green capitalist solution to climate change is tied to the reduction of the Earth System emergency to climate change alone.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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What form (if any) would copyright take in a post-capitalist society?

#PostCapitalism #Politics #Copyright

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

“…politicians must stop prioritising ‘socially & ecologically destructive growth’ that only increases the profits—& serves the consumption demands—of the world’s richest individuals & corporations.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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The Law that can’t be broken (and that you have probably never heard of)

“In other words, beyond a certain point long-passed, economic activity becomes parasitic; the human enterprise can further expand only by entropically debilitating debilitating its host.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

The Law that can’t be broken
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Politics has run out of road Neoliberal politics promised growth, efficiency, and renewal. What it has delivered is inequality, insecurity, and democratic exhaustion. The right has failed. But, as this video explains, much of the...

“We are stuck with a political class that cannot think beyond markets, marginal tweaks, focus groups & the fear of challenging the power of capital. This is not leadership. This is exhaustion.

We need a new organising principle.” #PostCapitalism
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“From a decolonial perspective, the Global South does not need to be locked into further debt to tackle climate change, but requires compensation for the extractive logic underpinning the global financial architecture.” #PostCapitalism
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So, what happens after we overthrow the Empire? For example, do all dwellings become the personal property of whoever is actually living in them?

What happens to the mansions of the rich, such as Mar-A-Lago and the White House? Break them up into rent-free apartments? Ditto for hotels and other […]

“Far into the future, discarded objects persist to ‘haunt us with the temporality they materialise’. When waste is examined through the lens of temporality, the current dominant paradigm of exponential growth through zero waste appears redundant or even ludicrous.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth

Does Green Capitalism Have a Future? - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung As the fossil backlash accelerates, a renewable energy system looks increasingly out of reach

Does Green Capitalism Have a Future? [Not if we actually want to solve anything] #PostCapitalism
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David Harvey on Marxism for the 21st Century Karl Marx developed his critique of capitalism by studying England’s “satanic mills.” But, as David Harvey writes, he understood capitalism as a global system. Were he alive today, he would insist tha...

“The fixity of our mental conception acts as a drag on our ability to think, let alone freely act on the political projects now required to create a more just, more ecologically acceptable & more emancipatory socialist world.” #PostCapitalism

Marxism for the 21st Century
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Writer Nina Munteanu on governance under scarcity through an Ecological SF lens. Ecological SF perspective on post-climate change governance under scarcity informed by Frase's Four Futures.

Post-Capitalist futures explored by SF author and ecologist Nina Munteanu with a focus on deep ecology, technocracy and 'the other'... #postcapitalism #othering #thefuture #Canadian #government #technocracy #deepecology www.realityskimming.com/post/governa...

How to Understand Nature From a Marxist Perspective Nobody today denies that capitalism exploits nature. The disagreement is over why. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni spoke to Jacobin about capitalism’s complex relationship to what economists once...

“In this sense, the rights of nature can be understood as a form of multi-species collective bargaining, situating ecological conflict within political economy rather than reducing it to market adjustment.” #PostCapitalism

Nature From a Marxist Perspective
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Climate Collapse Is Not an Accident This essay argues that climate collapse is structurally embedded in capitalism. It examines why reform repeatedly stalls and what systemic change would require.

“A post-capitalist climate transition does not mean abolishing coordination, innovation or production. It means reorganising them around ecological stability & human needs rather than profit-maximisation.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming t...

“Stuck in these boxes, we keep on missing the opportunity to transcend the ‘vertical’ & ‘horizontal’ dichotomy & follow the advice of degrowthers’ maybe dearest writer Ursula K Le Guin: going sideways.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

- @degrowthinfo.bsky.social
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The Case for Hope Hope Lies Within Each One of Us

“We must go to the heart of the matter & change our values. We must value preservation over consumption & time over money. We must make profound changes that will create more meaningful lives, just societies & restore our planet.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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“Since the 1970s, the real economy that produces food, homes, medicines & tools has been overtaken by what Karl Polanyi called ‘high finance’…

It is estimated that 95% of financial values have no relation to the goods & services exchanged.” #PostCapitalism
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A post-neoliberal consensus? Not on this basis Professor Simon Wren-Lewis has a recent post on his Mainly Macro blog entitled A Post-Neoliberal Consensus. It is worth reading because it shows both how far mainstream economics has shifted after for...

“Climate is not one policy area among others; it is the binding constraint on everything, & ignoring it replicates the neoliberal idea that it is a mere externality.” #PostCapitalism

A post-neoliberal consensus? Not on this basis
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Yep, this ex software engineer also wonders why the state can't build some of the digital infra needed for this. Would love to see some generic white label platforms built out at cost for use by worker collectives, integrated into public transport apps etc #PostCapitalism

Economic questions: the Erich Fromm Question This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...

“Fromm’s critique is not that capitalism creates unhappiness incidentally, but that it often requires it, because anxious, status-driven people are profitable.” #PostCapitalism

Economic questions: the Erich Fromm Question
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Under Capitalism, Democracy Stops at the Economy In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy.

“Growth is not a win-win for capital & workers, as is so often claimed. Class discipline is baked into its very logic. Working class politics, therefore, cannot be limited to fighting for higher wages, but must aim at escaping from capitalism altogether.” #PostCapitalism
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#PostCapitalism, surely.