ANARCHY, SOCIALITY, AND THE WAY
John Clark
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” – Heraclitus
“If I knew the Way, I would take you to the Oikos.” – The Grateful Dead (slightly paraphrased)
Ted Trainer’s recent two-part article on …
New Politics
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace …
The many misunderstandings of degrowth: A response to Kelsey Piper’s “Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?”
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 …
The path to a just and sustainable society
Ted Trainer
The first part of this article discussed how the consumer capitalist society is so far beyond sustainable levels of production and consumption that the resulting global problems cannot be solved unless there is huge reduction in those levels, …
We Thought It Was Fiction
Alfredo Lopez, Melanie Bush, Hamid Khan and Ken Montenegro
Years ago, there was a movie genre known as “hacker fiction,” a kind of science fiction with plots that revolved around computers, nerdy people who spend their lives using them and …
Eco-socialism vs. Eco-anarchism: Exploring “The Simpler Way”
Ted Trainer
This is the first of two articles outlining “The Simpler Way” perspective on the global predicament and the way out of it. Many analysts now see that consumer-capitalism must be replaced, and most alternative thinking in this context …
Challenging colonization: Building sustainable human and natural communities in Palestine
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 …
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Great Reset and the global resistance to come
Sajai Jose
What exactly is the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,’ the catchphrase that has been doing the rounds in business, tech and policy circles, which in recent years has been actively popularized by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the …
Quand vous voudrez…a 1976 poster which envisioned degrowth
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 …
From Political Ecology to Critical Theory, and back again
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 …
Water, the driving force of Nature: Emancipation through popular consultation
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 …
Dismantling “Power” by building “Democratic Autonomy”
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 …