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jasonhickel.bsky.social
Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
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On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

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We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the expense of another.” —Karl Marx

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US “democracy”, where billionaires openly brag about buying elections and demand obeisance from political leaders.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

submitted 12 days ago • 38 comments

A Gallup survey taken in March this year found only 46% of US Americans support Israel. This is the lowest level recorded in 25 years of Gallup's annual tracking. news.gallup.com/poll/657404/...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

If you are into psychology or behavioural sciences, check out this new piece we have in Nature Human Behaviour on degrowth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Beneath all the propaganda, all the nice words about human rights and equality and international law, this is it. This is the material manifestation of Western values.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Ehud Olmert, the former PM of Israel himself, now says that what Israel is doing in Gaza is a "criminal war of annihilation". And yet Western politicians and journalists cannot bring themselves to acknowledge this fact. It is absolutely wild. archive.ph/3vvOi

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation. Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Students are re-establishing their encampment at @uab.cat . "We denounce that the university continues to maintain links with Israeli academic institutions and companies that are accomplices in the genocide." Read their demands here: uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/a...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

It should be clear to everyone at this point that the only reasonable course of action is a military coalition of states to impose a no-fly zone around Gaza, physically stop Israel's genocidal slaughter, and rush aid in to prevent mass starvation.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Absolutely insane headline. This is what genocide looks like. This is what our ruling classes have decided will be normal.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Companies from high-income countries are responsible for 700% more environmental conflicts in low- and middle-income countries than companies from China are. New study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine how much more effective Western labour unions would be if they coordinated actions with workers in the global South who are inserted into their supply chains and who provide so much of the labour that ends up in Western output.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Here's what's happening, as far as I can tell. 🧵 -The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza. -Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

New article with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social EU industrial policy aims for resilience, autonomy & sustainability — but internal contradictions make these goals structurally unrealisable We outline a post-growth alternative: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

It's wild to consider that the US government began ramping up its narrative about China's "neocolonialism in Africa" at *exactly the same time* that the US was expanding its military presence on the continent, which now totals over 50 active military bases.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Many people claim there is a natural connection between capitalism and democracy. Sometimes the two concepts are virtually fused together. I always find this odd because I value democracy, but there is nothing democratic about capitalism... jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capita...

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments