| Title: |
Uniting the Means and Ends of Degrowth Transformation |
| Authors: |
Fitzpatrick, Nick |
| Source: |
Fitzpatrick, N 2024, Uniting the Means and Ends of Degrowth Transformation. in The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 189-208. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986945-010 |
| Publisher Information: |
De Gruyter |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Aarhus University: Research |
| Subject Terms: |
Anarchism; Degrowth; Political strategy; Revolutionary process; State |
| Description: |
Degrowthers are often depicted as reactionaries or utopians that lack a basic understanding of biophysical reality and social change. This chapter counters this narrative by reconstructing the degrowth movement’s views on political strategy and the arguments used to justify it. Here I demonstrate that the degrowth movement has developed a systematic critique of why economic growth is incompatible with environmental justice. However, the movement should not downplay or deny the difficulties of achieving degrowth when developing social theories and political strategies. Rather they must realize that anything less than uprooting the systemic drivers of climate and ecological breakdown amounts to greenwashing. To this end, the degrowth movement should extend its critique to the State if it believes in uniting the means and ends of degrowth. This is because the means of acquiring and exercising state power runs contrary to the ends of degrowth: self-governing societies based on decentralization, workers’ control, and mutual aid. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-3-11-099832-0; 3-11-099832-7 |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9783110998320; urn:ISBN:9783110998320 |
| DOI: |
10.1515/9783110986945-010 |
| Availability: |
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/064d8770-2503-42ab-af93-9e4631b131e0; https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986945-010; https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/412814411/2024_Fitzpatrick_-_Uniting_the_Means_and_Ends_of_Degrowth_Transformation.pdf; https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85202908850 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D5F96DF3 |
| Database: |
BASE |