Abstract

I started this symposium making a case for socialism without growth. I wrote a theoretical piece. But I wanted to talk to the kind of democratic socialists that support Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn and remind them that ending neoliberalism is only half of the story, difficult as it may be. What is to be done afterwards matters as much, especially when it comes to questions of ecology. If democratic socialists do not have a new way to reduce inequalities or eliminate poverty, one that does not depend on growth and expansion, then their solutions will not only be short-lived and unsustainable but also achieved at the cost of colonizing and destroying the worlds of others. I couldn't put it better than Eduardo Gudynas who recounted for this Symposium the story of pink progressives in Latin America and how they “fell back [on] a growth-aligned, and therefore anti-environmental, developmentalism.”

ICTA Authors

Giorgos Kallis

Digital Object Identifier - DOI

http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2018.1563624