The success of growth, as a political objective, stems from its function, which was to appease and deflect distributional conflict, becoming a core factor of state legitimacy and political stability. Political theorists now debate the effects that an end of growth might have on liberal democracies
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George Monbiot
1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better?
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
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