Degrowth, mfs

  • cynesthesia [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This article is idiotic. It’s anticommunist drivel that just exists to help the western left rationalize shitting on actually existing/existed socialism in China/USSR because they weren’t green enough.

    • wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      All the Soviets really achieved was Chernobyl and the destruction of the Aral Sea, and a parody of western capitalism in which Communist party officials enjoyed a good standard of living and everyone else did not.

      Not so skookum, tyee.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Honestly props to the lib ass Tyee for publishing this. I wish Saito’s book wasn’t as opaque as it is, as I think degrowth communism is obviously a great direction (though not necessarily meaningfully different from other degrowth arguments.)

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 year ago

      Fair enough, and I don’t really hate The Tyee. They may post liberal articles from time to time, but they post meaningful ones as well, such as this one. I wouldn’t really declare them overall “liberal,” in my honest opinion, but that’s just me, I suppose. Still, some things can be learned from “liberal” news outlets.