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Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy
Holgersen, Ståle
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/25/growth-or-degrowth-ecosocialism-challenges-a-false-dichotomy/Date Written: 2025-03-25 Year Published: 2025 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25272 Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide. Abstract: - Excerpt: the antifascist struggle must be both defensive and offensive. We must defend what is worth defending while escalating and intensifying our own struggles—especially those the far right does not want to face. The fight for ecosocialism is exactly that. Uniting the broad working class must always remain at the core of any socialist strategy. But let’s be honest—so often when we sit down to talk, our disagreements deepen rather than dissolve. Sometimes, external pressure forces unity more effectively than good intentions. Perhaps this is where fascism inadvertently helps us. The far right - whether in government or on the streets - will continue to attack progressive institutions, labor unions, feminist and anti-racist movements, and, of course, the environmental movement. There is no room for naïve optimism here. But these attacks might also make it easier to see what unites the broad working class. If so, that is an opportunity we must seize. Subject Headings |