Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_11
Michael Löwy
In nine theses, Michael Löwy elaborates on the central themes of ecosocialist degrowth. "The ecological crisis," he begins, "is already the most important social and political question of the twenty-first century.… The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be decided in the coming decades."
Michael Löwy在九篇论文中阐述了生态社会主义衰退的核心主题。“生态危机,”他开始说道,“已经是21世纪最重要的社会和政治问题……地球的未来,以及人类的未来,将在未来几十年内决定。”
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_9
Nicolas Graham
Economic planning, Nicolas Graham writes, was not, perhaps a major theme in Capital. However, Marx's understanding of such planning—as yet unrealized societal capability—yields great insight into how we might reorient modes of production toward cooperation and coordination. "Despite bourgeois and neoliberal ideology," he writes, "planning is both an urgent necessity and a liberatory potentiality."
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_12
Yingjian Chen
"Degrowth" may often be associated with the left, but can also have conservative—even ecofascist—implications. What do proponents and critics mean by "degrowth"? How do these differences play out ideologically? Ying Chen writes that, for radicals, the answer is to place the economic system at the center of the degrowth narrative, thus naming the system that must be replaced with a more just and equitable socialist society.
{"title":"Degrowth—What's in a Name?","authors":"Yingjian Chen","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_12","url":null,"abstract":"\"Degrowth\" may often be associated with the left, but can also have conservative—even ecofascist—implications. What do proponents and critics mean by \"degrowth\"? How do these differences play out ideologically? Ying Chen writes that, for radicals, the answer is to place the economic system at the center of the degrowth narrative, thus naming the system that must be replaced with a more just and equitable socialist society.","PeriodicalId":46964,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review-An Independent Socialist Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42433122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_4
Minqi Li
Minqi Li asks: How can China, the world's largest energy consumer, be "de-grown"? What policies and institutions must change, and what are the potential social implications? How can social ownership of production, redistribution of wealth the working class, and democratically controlled planning bring the country closer to a zero growth scenario?
{"title":"Degrowing China—By Collapse, Redistribution, or Planning?","authors":"Minqi Li","doi":"10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_4","url":null,"abstract":"Minqi Li asks: How can China, the world's largest energy consumer, be \"de-grown\"? What policies and institutions must change, and what are the potential social implications? How can social ownership of production, redistribution of wealth the working class, and democratically controlled planning bring the country closer to a zero growth scenario?","PeriodicalId":46964,"journal":{"name":"Monthly Review-An Independent Socialist Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49382659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_5
Christopher P. Gilbert
Chris Gilbert examines the ecological aspects of Venezuela's project of communal socialism, as well as its relation to the country's inherited extractive economy. These democratically run communities present an alternative to the extractivist and productivist social relations driving the planet to ruin.
Chris Gilbert考察了委内瑞拉社区社会主义项目的生态方面,以及它与该国继承的采掘经济的关系。这些民主管理的社区为推动地球走向毁灭的采掘主义和生产主义社会关系提供了另一种选择。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_2
Güney Işıkara, Özgür Narin
Increasingly, scholarship around degrowth and socialism are coalescing around certain shared ideas, namely, that capitalism is at the root of our planetary crisis. Güney Işıkara and Özgür Narin draw out key points of convergence among these thinkers, as well as discrepancies in the two approaches to creating a future egalitarian and sustainable society.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_1
J. Foster
In the introduction to this summer's special issue on "Planned Degrowth," John Bellamy Foster outlines the major themes of degrowth thought, including, above all, a recognition of the need to challenge current notions of "growth" and "prosperity" and move toward a more sustainable model of human development, one that meets the needs of individuals and communities. This, Foster writes, requires a massive revolutionary shift in the social relations governing the means production and the prioritization of planning our economy around the survival of the species, rather than the endless drive to accumulation that has devastated the planet.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-03-2023-07_6
Kent A. Klitgaard
Kent Klitgaard surveys degrowth thought, starting with the essential contradiction of capitalism presented by Marx, which gives rise to our current planetary crisis. Through an understanding this contradiction and degrowth literature spanning twentieth century, the author presents a plan for a sustainable and planned future socialist society.
Kent Klitgaard从马克思提出的资本主义本质矛盾入手,考察了衰退思想,这一矛盾引发了我们当前的全球危机。通过对这一矛盾和二十世纪文学衰退的理解,作者提出了一个可持续的、有计划的未来社会主义社会的规划。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-02-2023-06_3
H. Sheehan
Helena Sheehan turns her incisive eye on the so-called anti-disinformation industry, and wondering whether the mainstream media is using a newfound interest in fact-checking, fake news, and disinformation studies to conceal deeper biases, ones that occlude the hidden ideologies deceiving much of the public.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.14452/mr-075-02-2023-06_2
Gabriel Rockhill
In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the thinkers of what is known as French theory. Gabriel Rockhill considers the actual, less-than-revolutionary actions of these popular philosophers in the student revolts, then turns our attention to a deeper question: Who benefits from drawing these tenuous connections?
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