Toward our liberation
. . . from capitalism, industrialism, mass society.
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Toward a greening of the Left . . . a recognition that as much as we’re oppressed by the inequality, injustice, and exploitation of the current socio-economic system, we’re also burdened by the complexity and hypertrophy of mass society.
Capitalism is nothing but the current manifestation of a turn toward aberrant lifeways dating back millennia. Capital, technology, and the state have constituted an interlocking juggernaut since the era of the ancient empires. Of course, capitalism plus industrialism enormously accelerated the toxic social and technological trajectories.
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https://simplicityinstitute.org/
“What people must see is that ecologically sane, socially responsible living is good living; that simplicity makes for an existence that is free.”
— Theodore Roszak
The greening of the Left will entail a transition of thought toward a new post-capitalist paradigm: Eco-socialism as a historical phase to open doors and forge pathways toward ultimate liberation via decentralization, communitarianism, bioregionalism:
