Degrowth: A modern form of malthusianism
Proclaims to be anti-capitalist. Has no scientific approach. “Growth-ideology”, whereas Marx wrote 3 Volumes of capital…
Growth isn’t just a mindset, but a do or die question (accumulation) in a race with eachother. It’s not a tap we can just turn on and off.
It’s like the the argument of keynsianism turned upside down / the other side of reformism. One side says:
“We can stimulate growth, that’s a good thing”, while the degrowthers argue for clamping down on it.
… there is a word for when you don’t have growth under capitalism… it’s called a recession. And it usually doesn’t work out so well for people.
Carbon emissions dropped very fast during the covid pandemic. Degrowthers celebrated, but for the majority of people, that meant suffering, the piling up of debts, inflation, job insecurity.
If you abandon a scientific approach and treat the economy as an ideological question, you fall back into the same utopian socialism that Marx was criticising.