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Degrowth, drug fetishism, & “anti-colonialism” are used as weapons against the revolutionary cause (open.substack.com)

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This will probably be one of Rainer's most controversial articles to date.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I am with you. I do think Degrowth is potentially problematic because it's being used to argue against the need to develop the productive base of overexploited nations. It's also not really something the West is capable of doing considering it doesn't have a productive base anymore. Degrowth in the West would be a combination of austerity and literal abandonment of settlements, particularly in the areas that are environmentally hostile to villages.

But I see degrowth being used against the overexploited world as a demand for them to stop developing their economies, especially against Marxists who argue for developing productive capabilities - a thinly veiled chauvinism against China and the BRI.

But even on Lemmy we see people railing against decolonization as though the "working class" of indigenous nations can stand in solidarity with the working class of settler nations because they have to otherwise it's not "Marxist".