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Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse

As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to  1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading

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Green Communism

Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading

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Interview @ Siberian Light

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Zizek’s Metapolitics

Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas … Continue reading

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Communism is our Road to Redemption

Green Communism is humanity’s last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe. Continue reading

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Education as the Elixir of Growth II

A while ago I wrote Education as the Elixir of Growth on DR, in which I noted that in most countries the educational profile is closely correlated to their level of productivity. The major exceptions are nations with resource windfalls … Continue reading

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