I disagree with a good bit of this, though it’s a million times better than some super liberal stuff.
I guess here is as good a place as anywhere, but I always find it super interesting how alienation is treated. Alienation was something which Marx wrote about early in his life, and people say ‘he didn’t develop the idea’, but I always read it as something which developed into other core ideas: commodity fetishization and exploitation. Alienation is a generic term for the specific relations to production, with commodity fetishization being from the perspective of consumption and exploitation from the perspective of production.
It’s correct in that there is a huge problem and that capitalism causes it, but getting into specifics leaves me wanting to work on better answers to this! It’s encouraging in that way, because I disagree in a way which can be constructive
There are many points in the article that one can criticize, especially the implementation part prompting the author to describe degrowth as viable option (which I consider a social democrat capitalism-lite way of solving the problem)
But overall, it’s a good and accurate critique of capitalism’s symptoms on individuals and society as a whole.
I think degrowth as a way of setting strategic priorities in socialism is fine, but using it as a strategy to become socialist is idealist nonsense, for sure
I disagree with a good bit of this, though it’s a million times better than some super liberal stuff.
I guess here is as good a place as anywhere, but I always find it super interesting how alienation is treated. Alienation was something which Marx wrote about early in his life, and people say ‘he didn’t develop the idea’, but I always read it as something which developed into other core ideas: commodity fetishization and exploitation. Alienation is a generic term for the specific relations to production, with commodity fetishization being from the perspective of consumption and exploitation from the perspective of production.
It’s correct in that there is a huge problem and that capitalism causes it, but getting into specifics leaves me wanting to work on better answers to this! It’s encouraging in that way, because I disagree in a way which can be constructive
There are many points in the article that one can criticize, especially the implementation part prompting the author to describe degrowth as viable option (which I consider a social democrat capitalism-lite way of solving the problem)
But overall, it’s a good and accurate critique of capitalism’s symptoms on individuals and society as a whole.
I think degrowth as a way of setting strategic priorities in socialism is fine, but using it as a strategy to become socialist is idealist nonsense, for sure