Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish

Brian M. Napoletano

The concept of generalised autogestion, particularly as developed in the work of Henri Lefebvre, offers an important vantage point from which to critically examine a potential communal-ecological path to socialism inspired in large part by István Mészáros’s work on the communal system. To properly situate the ecological aspect of the communal system, however, it is first necessary to address the issue of growth/degrowth as it is frequently conceived—and indeed misconceived—within various strands of Marxism in the face of the current planetary crisis. Only then can we orient a genuinely communal-ecological path, geared not to growth or degrowth, but to sustainable human development.

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