“The contradiction inheres in the fact that genuine growth, meaning an economy centered on human wellbeing and fulfillment, is not possible in a social system so stratified and unjust.”
#anticapitalism #anarchism #socialism #decentralism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/21/financial-crisis-and-the-question-of-scale/

#georgewoodcock #anarchism #decentralism #alienation

My latest for @counterpunch is up today: “Practitioners and theoreticians of anarchism have always been sensitive to these ambiguities, attending to the contradictions contained within ideas of property, competition, and economic freedom.”

#anticapitalism #decentralism #anarchism #degrowth #wellbeing #wellbeingeconomy #buddhisteconomics #smallisbeautiful #anarchistsofmastodon

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/27/the-ambiguity-of-competition/

I didn't find Goodman's lines about Camus's reaction to the guillotine^1 but there is #MichaelHarrington review^2 of #PeopleOrPersonnel that sounds like today's struggle for the internet:
> ... centralized technology and organization are terribly wasteful... #decentralism is proposed not as a panacea but as a practical way of performing certain important functions and doing them better than the centralizers.

^2 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/08/on-paul-goodman/660353/

^1 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine

Anyone interested in Post or is Mastodon everything you hoped it’d be? https://post.news/?r=hymmk
#post #decentralism #twitterexodus

“Compared with the barbaric exploits of the civilized, the savageries of the barbarians seem to lose all significance.” - Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations (1957) #decentralism #smallisbeautiful