I honestly don’t think it’s that simple. Read Ishmael. We have a culture that is broken, and has been for much longer than capitalism has been around. Capitalism has turbo charged the obsession with growth, for sure, but ever since we decided we were above nature and unique and special as a species, we have been going in the wrong direction.
I think you’re giving the author too little credit. They talk of the necessity of establishing solidarity outside the preconceived circle of caring, which can directly be understood to include the rest of nature.
The author doesn’t give an indication either way, so perhaps they should have been more explicit if they agree with you, but “I don’t think it’s that simple” is a bad way to address that.
Sure, they acknowledge we need to change from obsession with growth and show solidarity with nature, but capitalism isn’t the sole culprit as they repeatedly state. We diverged from solidarity with nature long before capitalism was a concept.
What 'ism is congruent with degrowth? I get it, the author hates capitalism, and with good reason. Naming his demon, directly, isn’t as useful as he thinks. People don’t move away from Capitalism as much as they move toward something else. What is that something else?
I honestly don’t think it’s that simple. Read Ishmael. We have a culture that is broken, and has been for much longer than capitalism has been around. Capitalism has turbo charged the obsession with growth, for sure, but ever since we decided we were above nature and unique and special as a species, we have been going in the wrong direction.
I think you’re giving the author too little credit. They talk of the necessity of establishing solidarity outside the preconceived circle of caring, which can directly be understood to include the rest of nature.
The author doesn’t give an indication either way, so perhaps they should have been more explicit if they agree with you, but “I don’t think it’s that simple” is a bad way to address that.
Sure, they acknowledge we need to change from obsession with growth and show solidarity with nature, but capitalism isn’t the sole culprit as they repeatedly state. We diverged from solidarity with nature long before capitalism was a concept.
What 'ism is congruent with degrowth? I get it, the author hates capitalism, and with good reason. Naming his demon, directly, isn’t as useful as he thinks. People don’t move away from Capitalism as much as they move toward something else. What is that something else?
The culture war is the class war