…. We can take this observation one step further. It is important to recognize that the word \u2018growth\u2019 has
\nbecome a kind of propaganda term. In reality, what is going on is a process of elite accumulation, the
\ncommodi\ufb01cation of commons, and the appropriation of human labour and natural resources \u2014 a process
\nthat is quite often colonial in character. This process, which is generally destructive to human commu-
\nnities and to ecology, is glossed as growth. Growth sounds natural and positive (who could possibly be
\nagainst growth?) so people are easily persuaded to buy into it, and to back policies that will generate more
\nof it, when otherwise they might not. Growth is the ideology of capitalism, in the Gramscian sense. It is
\nthe core tenet of capitalism\u2019s cultural hegemony. The word degrowth is powerful and effective because it
\nidenti\ufb01es this trick, and rejects it. Degrowth calls for the reversal of the processes that lie behind growth: it
\ncalls for disaccumulation, decommodi\ufb01cation, and decolonization.<\/p>\n
Jason Hickel\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0 @jasonhickel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…. We can take this observation one step further. It is important to recognize that the word \u2018growth\u2019 has become a kind of propaganda term. In reality, what is going on is a process of elite accumulation, the commodi\ufb01cation of commons, and the appropriation of human labour and natural resources \u2014 a process that is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-the-good","category-the-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}