Towards eco-socialist degrowth: class and political strategy

Abstract

How can transitions to eco-socialist degrowth happen? And who will lead them? This essay engages with Matt Huber’s recent work on questions of eco-socialist strategy and offers, hopefully, an opportunity to advance a theory of change beyond single political agents and strategies to encompass different forms of organizing based on varied repertoires of contention and disruption. We wish to sustain an expanded understanding of who may be the political agents of change and how they can effectively organize into a powerful alliance of unions, parties, and social movements across differences, recognising the critical role of workers, trade unions, and disruptive industrial action in fossil fuel sectors, that are central in Huber’s model.

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Giorgos Kallis a,b,* and Giacomo D'Alisa a   

a Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

b Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain   

http://doi.org/10.36399/Degrowth.003.01.11  

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