Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling
This history is well-known: Supported by the Club of Rome, a group of MIT scholars published ‘The Limits to Growth’ (LtG) in 1972(PDF). Immensely successful, the book was also intensely critiqued.
One important …
Dorine E. van Norren
Initiatives of the Global South have much to contribute to the discussions on development, sustainability and climate change, especially when it comes to changing our behavior. The world is constantly making new agreements on how to …
John Clark
Beyond Money is a very welcome work that focuses with unusual care and intensity on the destructive power of money and the ways that monetary values pervade and distort all aspects of society. It shows that the monetary …
Anitra Nelson
(This article includes revised and direct extracts from Anitra Nelson’s book Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, Pluto Press, London, January 2022.)
Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy urges twenty-first century social and environmental movements to seriously consider a …
Carlos Tornel[i]
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Boulding
In the book The Case for Degrowth, Giorgios Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa …
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Christine Dann
“le seul réalisme c’est de vivre heureux ici et maintenant sans attendre des lendemains qui chantent ou déchantent même si vous ne votez pas” (“the only realistic thing to do is to live happily in the here and …
Omar Dahbour
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
It is increasingly clear that solutions to …
Alberto Acosta
“The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature.”
Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question” (1844)
Water, a slave of capital
When we human …
Şervîn Nûdem
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde
The past centuries have witnessed many anti-colonial and revolutionary struggles launched and fought with the aim of liberating people and their land from exploitation. They have aspired …
Jen Gobby
Along the shores of Blue River in unceded Secwepemc territory in so-called British Columbia(BC) , Canada, there is a group of Indigenous folks building and living in tiny houses, solarized, built to be mobile, and adorned with vibrant …
