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A political strategy for degrowth | tldr: mass parties founded on egalitarian principles and courageously advocating for anti-capitalist policies (www.resilience.org)

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"[R]epresentative democracy is a failure and elections are a circus. If we want to reform democracy, elections have to be abolished." | A political strategy for degrowth

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[–] Clockwork@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Before reading the article: party politics is a 20th Century form of organization that worked in the context of 20th Century conditions; expecting it would work for the 21st Century and the digital era is, in my opinion, not going to work. From what I read on history of economics, a new paradigm is adopted when the current one fails repeatedly and the ruling class has no option but to pick some different framework that can still benefit their interests. I think this is the most likely (although not the most desirable) path to degrowth in the next ~20y.