‘Degrowth communism’ could address our most pressing social ills, argues Japanese scholar Kohei Saito.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/746751

Degrowth, mfs

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I'm down with this. But let's address the elephant in the room about "degrowth," it necessitates population control.

  • tetraodon@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    I'm normally really wary about upvoting anything posted on hexbear, but in this case the article is well-reasoned and well-written, and the USSR fanbois adequately upset, so all in all thumbs-up.

      • tetraodon@feddit.it
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        1 year ago

        Isn't this the most upvoted comment in the thread?

        This article is idiotic. It's anticommunist drivel that just exists to help the western left rationalize shitting on actually existing/existed socialism in China/USSR because they weren't green enough.

        https://hexbear.net/comment/4041923

        Sounds rather upset to me.

        • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I'm not. MF_COOM isn't. I'm the one that posted it. And Saito is a tankie too. Besides, the comment isn't about degrowth.

          • tetraodon@feddit.it
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            1 year ago

            Good good. Happy for you.

            But I struggle to see how Saito can be called a tankie when he's so critical of the Soviet Union and of historical communism.

            Or maybe we have fundamentally incompatible definitions of what is a tankie.

            Don't get me wrong: I like Saito's ideas. Are they going to happen? No.