Archives de catégorie : Degrowth

Presidential elections: Degrowth answers Attac questions. Preamble As growth objectors we can but bring into question the legitimacy of institutions such as G20: why only 20 countries, and furthermore why should these most economically powerful nations dictate the ways of … Continuer la lecture →

The real democracy is degrowth! Long live degrowth! Since May 15th, our Spanish friends have decided to occupy the street in order to complain about the lack of democracy and the dominant political party and the austerity plans it is … Continuer la lecture →

Starting from the postulate that each and everyone will be able to blossom where he/she feels better, the Growth Objectors (GO) do not intend to form a single organization from the start. The multiple views held among the Growth Objectors … Continuer la lecture →

Degrowth is a common name, which stands for a way of thinking, a societal project, and a political movement. It is a common name and this is why we make sure to write it with a capital “D”. We named … Continuer la lecture →

Above all Degrowth is about bringing into question our consumerist society, without jeopardising our democratic, social, and cultural achievements. Degrowth is neither degrowth of everything for everyone, nor a return to a pseudo-lost happiness, but a turn, a pathway to … Continuer la lecture →

A side step to grasp Degrowth Coherence and radicalism to re-appropriate politics Since the emergence of the Degrowth movement in the early 2000s, a strong consensus has been building around the underlying ideas of the project despite the diverse viewpoints … Continuer la lecture →

For the last few years we have been living according to the ebb and flow of the “debt crises”. Recently, Greece has shaken the Euro-zone, whilst the state of Spanish, Italian, Hungarian or Irish public finances is deemed very precarious … Continuer la lecture →

After a 40 hours train journey through the Balkans, I am just back from Istanbul, where I have just spent a week very rich in encounters, reflections, debates, surprises, and of course festive and convivial happenings. There I attended the … Continuer la lecture →

For a democratic transition towards sustainable societies based on Degrowth. Growth society accumulates the whole spectrum of crises: economic, environmental, social, cultural, and political. There is no need to demonstrate this absurdity in view of the growing full-in-your-face inequalities, the … Continuer la lecture →

“A man does not ‘by nature’ wish to earn more and more money, but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose.” Max Weber One of the core … Continuer la lecture →

Degrowth is not only the aim of this project but its path and its method. An authoritarian Degrowth would not be a genuine Degrowth as we conceive it. More than a simple warning against the « forever more » paradigm, first and … Continuer la lecture →

Confronted with a multidimensional crisis, we propose a radical, coherent and conscientious proposition: an Objection to Growth. After the first political campaign Europe-Decroissance (Europe Degrowth) which advocated Degrowth (1), do we have the audacity to extend this adventure and to … Continuer la lecture →