Let’s put some life into this sub. I don’t think degrowth is possible under capitalism because the imperative to degrow contradicts the capitalist drive for the creation of value (valorization) which must always grow under capitalism’

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    I feel like you’re leaning toward anarchism rather than socialism here. Hierarchy and authority are not necessarily bad things.

    I see where you come from with wages I think though. There is a difference between the pay you get for a work, and a pay you would get to work. One would be a transaction while the other would be a societal agreement or something like that. I don’t remember the details of this theory and I don’t have the words to talk about it in English unfortunately.

    Same goes for socialist, I feel the meaning you’re using it for here is very specific.

    • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOP
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      I haven’t even begun to get into the question of hierarchy and authority. But this is the meaning of socialism that was accepted by the first, second, and third international before the second and third international descended into chauvinism and Stalinism respectively. It’s only relatively recently with the degeneration of social democracy into neoliberalism and Marxism to Stalinism that the meaning has become perverted and vulgarized.