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The Problem with “Degrowth”

Why Is This Economic Model Consigned to Such an Ignominious Little Left-wing Niche? In 1972, the Club of Rome published its alarmist report The Limits to Growth. 52 years ago, the world had not yet discovered climate panic. Indeed, climate science was still developing its nascent modeling techniques – not yet recognized by a generalContinue reading “The Problem with “Degrowth””

Mutual Aid: From Kropotkin to Graeber

Two seminal anarchist thinkers contributed to the development, over the last 200 years of that strand of political and social philosophy in ways rivaled only by Karl Marx …

The World in 2124

Predicting the future — to a time after we are all dead — is not so hard, especially if you don’t have to support any of your projections!

Where Have All the Anarchists Gone?

understanding political philosophy — like anarchism or socialism — requires a quick dip into its intellectual history — anarchism’s Big Three thinkers were Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin (in that order!)

Utopias

Utopian literature started with the Garden of Eden — it has been with us ever since! Yet, somehow, the 20th century seemed more hospitable to dystopias. What happened? Let’s get back to something more hopeful!

Link from Politico

Now that antifa have been designated a “domestic terrorist group,” it’s worth revisiting my May post from The Past: Anarchism: Libertarian, Socialist, or Just Crazy?

Link from Washington Post

Anarchists in DC area — good profile from WaPo: they’re young, well educated, and angry! And, they use “Propaganda of the Deed” as a tactic! Watch out!

Anarchism: Libertarian, Socialist, or Just Crazy?

Published May 11, 2017 in Warp & Woof Anarchism: Libertarian, Socialist, or Just Crazy? William Sundwick What is anarchism? Since the mid-19th century, it has been defined as a political philosophy which is basically anti-statist, with the same Greek root as “anarchy.” It holds that the human spirit is throttled, never aided, by the variousContinue reading “Anarchism: Libertarian, Socialist, or Just Crazy?”