“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
An easy read of an important topic.
I wonder how could this ‘degrowth’ be implemented without the question of state, ownership, profit, etc. is even posited? Invoking ‘the fundamentals of the economic system’ without mentioning them and the class and power relations interlocking those fundamentals, leaves any clear alternative an open question.
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