Unnecessary Work
So I suspect that soon the lure of fulfillment will eclipse profitability — particularly because we all can meet our own needs, while only a few of us have ever profited from this disaster.
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Book review: The future is degrowth
The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I would describe The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism (June 2022) by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan.
A “Blue Commons” Agenda to Stop the Plunder of Our Oceans
Standing has just published The Blue Commons: Transforming the Economy of the Sea, a book that synthesizes vast amounts of complicated maritime histories, international law, and ecological science to explain how commoning could curb the market/state’s irresponsible, life-destroying treatment of oceans.
In Chile, We Have the Opportunity to Build an Economy to Overcome Fear
Going deep down to undo the foundations of capitalism will require a leap of revolutionary hope in our own capacity to live together differently.
Segregation, block by block
If you are interested in affordable housing, housing equity, environmental justice, reduction of carbon emissions, adequate public transit, or streets that are safe for walking and cycling, Arbitrary Lines is an excellent resource…
This Southern Appalachian town uses co-ops to build new communities around old industries
In the foothills of western North Carolina, the small town of Morganton is home to a growing co-op movement that’s reinvigorating the region’s once-struggling textile and furniture manufacturing industries, and refashioning them around egalitarianism and localism.
Is universal basic income part of a just transition?
Instead of focusing so many human resources on ensuring that the well-off do not receive benefits, the universal character of UBI guarantees that no one who needs help is left out.
The armed lifeboat
Militarised adaptation to climate breakdown is akin, as US journalist Christian Parenti argues, to the politics of the ‘armed lifeboat’ that seeks to secure the wealth of the few while training guns on everyone else.
Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.
Community Land Trusts as a Proactive Model for Post-Capitalist Sustainable New Local Development
The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism.
The Degrowth conundrum
By becoming involved in the many emerging local initiatives activists are likely to be in the most effective position to acquaint participants and onlookers with the need to dump capitalism and build local needs-driven economies under local control.
