There’s a great deal of commonality in critiques of degrowth by left-wing “ecomodernists” and accelerationists like Leigh Philips (see my critique here), and right-wing libertarians like Steven Greenhut. Both are characterized by a high degree of conceptual laziness; this laziness is manifested particularly in a failure to clearly define what degrowth even is, instead playing…

In a 2019 study for Center for a Stateless Society (We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists), I argued that the debate for and against degrowth was nearly incoherent because neither side clearly defined “degrowth” at all, let alone stuck to any consistent definition. If Paul Crider’s article “Degrowth: Neither Left Nor Right, But…

Oleh: Kevin Carson. Teks aslinya berjudul “Book Review: It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism.” DIterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Bernie Sanders. It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. With John Nichols (New York: Crown, 2023). Buku Sanders berfokus pada dua masalah yang harus dihadapi rakyat Amerika. Dia menyatakannya di awal sekali….

Originale: Kevin Carson, The Thought of Ivan Illich: A Libertarian Analysis. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna Versione stampabile pdf Nota del traduttore Per le citazioni tratte dai libri di Ivan Illich mi sono basato, per quanto mi è stato possibile, sulle edizioni in italiano. In alcuni casi, soprattutto quando le citazioni sono molto brevi, non…

Sanders’ book centers on two tasks facing the American people. He states them at the outset. First: These Americans [the predominantly younger voters who supported Sanders’ candidacy] understand that proposals that tinker around the edges are an insufficient response to the enormous crises we face. For them, there is a rapidly growing recognition that this…

      Introduction: Two Kinds of Society Illich’s most common term for the kind of society or mode of production he is critiquing is “industrial age.” The overall theme of his projected future writing, he notes, is “an epilogue to the industrial age.” I want to describe the fading monopoly of the industrial mode…

Di Asem. Originale pubblicato il 23 gennaio 2020 con il titolo The Growth of Degrowth and the Confusion of Democratic Socialists. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Bisogna ammettere che chiunque abbia inventato l’espressione Decrescita ha fatto un pessimo servizio a chi sostiene che occorre ridimensionare l’attuale modo di produzione industriale per, ad un tempo, fermare i…

View or download a PDF copy of Kevin Carson’s full C4SS Study: We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate. Introduction One of the biggest problems with the debate over “degrowth” is the term itself. In many ways, “degrowth” is an unfortunate choice for a label because it is so ambiguous. On…