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Tag yourself in, I think I'm both. https://x.com/akhivae/status/1836809947624931354?t=uAtXabZhgqpZAHJFYumBjg&s=19
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Basically there’s two kinds of leftists 1. UberEats but the drivers are a cooperative and the restaurants (also cooperatives) don’t lose money when they partner with it 2. Ban private jets; until such time as they become solar powered gliders with zero carbon output. Then just work to make them available to everyone, manufactured by worker owned cooperatives. Washing machines are good and no one hates them.
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Haha that pretty much sums it up. I do think though that there's some tension between decel and acc tendencies in the left which are kinda tricky sometimes. Leaving the OP dunk aside, you can see this tension for example when opposing globalization's effect on the labour market while at the same time defending freedom of movement across borders.
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Yeah. There are always going to be competing factions within the left. With respect to the former (dec vs acc), I think both are misunderstood by others and by themselves. Decel is actually degrowth, whose main focus is abandonment of gdp as the North Star for government economists, and acceleration’s main focus is technological advancement. I don’t see either of these as incompatible if a middle ground of “caring about externalities” is achieved. Call me naive. With respect to the latter (globalist vs nationalist tensions) I suspect the problem here is one of the dynamics of capitalism. As an internationalist, I don’t contest foreign labour. The tension is between what the capitalist wants to pay for labour and what he pays now. He pits us against each other in a needless battle for pittance of the value produced, when the focus should be his excess compensation. The company will be more productive with more employees almost certainly. But there will be no “excess profit”
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Couldn't have said it better! Will reflect on it for a while.
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Here’s a piece where I share some thoughts about degrowth vs accelerationism if you’re interested https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/euoiYZXM1-j6KFcsGEnzoy4DYLVDomAX0V962TWjb3Y
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Loved it! I think the word Degrowth has gotten too much bad PR beyond repair. And ultimately it's alright that people intuitively feel that growth is positive, the issue is with GDP-obsessed profit seeking. I'm down to simply call it eco-anarchism!
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Thanks 💚 I agree about the term degrowth. I was never a fan. And I’ll never use decelerarionist. I think we can better reform the word anarchism the more we teach people to synonimize it with decentralization. Sustainable decentralization is a mouthful but if we can get people to see that in the term solarpunk or eco-anarchism, it will be a popular vision imo
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