#postcapitalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Leaving you all with an excerpt from an essay from 2022, before I re-boost posts from yesterday and boost quoted posts. TY to @MaQuest , @jblue , @rooftopjaxx and everyone who shared and/or chimed in! #ABetterWorldIsPossible !
Can Solarpunk Save the World?
The choice, then, is clear: solarpunk, or barbarism.
by Stacey Balkan, November 15, 2022
Excerpt: "Offering an imperfect but clear-eyed hope, rather than so many apocalyptic nightmares, is a key goal of solarpunk fiction. While many critics argue that radical change will only come about following the total collapse of Earth systems—in other words, the apocalypse imagined by popular climate fiction and much recent zombie fare—it has become increasingly evident that such alarmism possesses no political utility.
"Furthermore, in a discussion about climate and energy justice, we must acknowledge that, for many #Indigenous communities, the 'apocalypse' happened long ago: during the long 16th-century, when an expanding plantation system expedited the removal and enslavement of millions of #BIPOC persons in order to accommodate the #hyperconsumption of imperial centers like London.
"Apocalypse, as a geohistorical event or literary trope, is thus not central to solarpunk. That is, solarpunk doesn’t require an environmental apocalypse, because most solarpunk practitioners understand the material legacies of #SettlerColonialism as on ongoing apocalypse.
"Consequently, solarpunk worlds are not necessarily postapocalyptic (nor set in the future), but they are #postextractivist. Responding to the ethos of #extractive #capitalism — whereby the colonized exist as 'fuel … for the sake of someone else’s good life' — solarpunk imaginaries demand a thorough dismantling of fossil-fueled modernity and the material infrastructures (and attendant cultural expressions) that occasioned our comprehensive dependence on prehistoric carbon. Quite logically then, solarpunk also rejects the techno-utopian project of saving industrial modernity via increasingly hubristic geoengineering schemes."
Full essay:
https://www.publicbooks.org/can-solarpunk-save-the-world/#SolarPunkSunday #PostCapitalism #SharingEconomy #Earth4All #SettlerColonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #TechBros
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"Are we moving #beyondcapitalism? If so, what alternatives are we moving towards and how will they be implemented?
Blaq Swans, a group that tracks and analyzes improbable events that shake the prevailing system, adapted the #CollaborativeEconomy Honeycomb to help the #P2PFoundation begin to answer these questions. The diagrams and full article can be found on the P2P Foundation’s site #CommonsTransition.
#PostCapitalism
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/mapping-the-emerging-post-capitalist-paradigm-and-its-main-thinkers/ -
Fascism, genocide, ecological collapse - symptoms of a system designed to fail.
We keep fighting crises, not the cause.
It’s time to confront capitalism itself.Read more: 👉 https://ecosocialassembly.wordpress.com/current-affair-comment/fascism-is-a-symptom-capitalism-is-the-disease/
#AntiFascism #EcoSocial #PostCapitalism #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #SystemChange #EcoSocialAssembly
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The People's Union has called for a boycott of General Mills from April 21 to 28: https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/
People have the power. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊
#peoplepower #democracy #strike #solidarity #postcapitalism #thepeoplesunion #thepeoplesunionusa #us #usa #america #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica #economics #generalmills #food
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#Degrowth and the Unmaking of #Capitalism
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, originally published by Degrowth.info
December 7, 2020"Our societies are facing multiple interconnected challenges, which include #ClimateEmergency, an unprecedented loss of #biodiversity, growing #inequality and #PlasticPollution. What connects these challenges is the underlying capitalist economic model, which prioritizes #profit-making over #wellbeing and requires endless #EconomicGrowth simply to stay afloat.
"Degrowth offers an alternative vision – it is a project of urgent and fundamental transformation. Degrowth requires reimagining our societies from the perspective of being profit-centred to being wellbeing-centred. This approach distinguishes degrowth from other, more compromising visions of transformation, such as ‘green growth’. But how can society transition towards degrowth?
"One idea that has become prominent in thinking about such a transition is that of ‘#decolonization of the imaginary’, a concept developed by Serge Latouche. This concept signals the need for a disruption of taken-for-granted ways of seeing the world, and their associated practices, rules and social norms. Decolonization of the imaginary questions deeply rooted beliefs about who we are, how we live, and about our place in this world. Are we merely self-interested individuals or are we also care-oriented members of communities? To what extent do technology and #consumption contribute to human wellbeing? Does our constantly expansive economy threaten human communities and the natural world?
"Decolonization of the imaginary has been an inspirational idea for scholars and activists alike. Yet, it alone seems to be insufficient to take us to fully grasping the depth of disruptions of capitalism that have been produced by initiatives such as transition towns, #permaculture farms, and #RepairCafes. Decolonization of the imaginary emphasises the symbolic dimensions of social change but it underplays the material dimensions of such change. It is also usually understood as an end point, and hence fails to help us to recognize – and learn about – what happens along the way.
"How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
"In a recent article, Giuseppe Feola proposes that we think about the disruption of capitalism in terms of ‘#unmaking’. He suggests that an unmaking of capitalism is not only necessary, but possibly pre-conditional for a transformation of the magnitude and nature required by degrowth. ‘Unmaking’ refers to individual or collective actions of disengagement or active deconstructions of existing capitalist systems that ‘make space’ for alternatives. Such actions could take the form of a personal decision to limit consumption or to quit a high-paying job at an #OilCorporation. Unmaking can also be recognized in a #CommunityFarm that refuses to submit to market pressure to expand production and instead turns to a #CommunitySupported model to sustain itself."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-12-07/degrowth-and-the-unmaking-of-capitalism/
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#FutureHistories #Podcast S02E33 - Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
#PatDevine, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #SocialistDemocracy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Cooperation, #Decisionmaking, #Participation, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #NegociatedCoordination, #Socialownership, #SelfgoverningSociety, #ScienceandSociety, #RobinHahnel, #DavidLaibman, #Marxism, #MarxistEconomics
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/ -
S02E21 - Robin Hahnel on Parecon
Participatory Economics (Parecon) – developed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel – is one of the most popular models for democratic economic planning.
#RobinHahnel, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #Parecon, #MichaelAlbert, #Cockshott, #Cottrell, #Marxism, #VonMises, #Hayek, #Friedman, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #EconomicPlanning, #Communism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #PlannedEconomy, #SystemicSocialism, #HetrodoxEconomics, #MarxistEconomics, #PoliticalEconomy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #ReproductiveLabor, #ParticipatorySocialistSociety
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e21-robin-hahnel-on-parecon/