The 2024 film “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (a nominee for Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards) is a smart, insightful look at a riveting if little-remembered episode in 20th century history: the assassination of Congolese leader and Pan-Africanist Patrice Lumumba.
Economic growth, especially as charted by GDP, has long been the conventional measuring stick for the health of an economy, but in recent years the glaring inadequacies and drawbacks of growth for its own sake have become quite clear. One current proposed corrective to this is the concept of degrowth.
By Andy Douglas I’ve been helping to start a new Prout-inspired project in my hometown of Iowa City, Iowa, in the US. By sharing about it, I hope to demonstrate that many opportunities exist for implementing Prout in practical ways around each of us. This project began with the understanding that American society has an extremely skewed distribution of wealth,
By Roar Bjonnes As the climate crisis intensifies and global inequality deepens, thinkers and activists are increasingly calling for alternatives to capitalism. Three perspectives offering compelling visions for a post-capitalist world are P. R. Sarkar’s Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout), Jason Hickel’s degrowth eco-socialism, and Nick Estes’ Indigenous resistance framework. While coming from different traditions, these approaches share striking similarities in
By Andy Douglas Ever wonder why our political systems seem to change so little, although the leaders we elect may vary? Perhaps it’s a systemic problem. I’m not saying there is no difference between the policies and programs of the various political parties. I am saying that it seems to be in the interest of all political parties to avoid
By Shriraksha Mohan In the long history of human civilization, humanity has witnessed an evolution in the ways our societies and economies have? been organized over time. Early humans, who lived in close-knit tribes and clans for their survival and protection against the elements of nature, depended on their collective physical labor to procure food, water, wood for cooking and
By Miguel Pacheco Ever since we climbed out of the trees, we humans have lived in closely knit, self-governing communities, deeply dependent on one another. These communities provided a sense of belonging, identity, and purpose. However, in the modern era, an increasing sense of alienation pervades our lives, creating a society where genuine happiness seems elusive for many. This dramatic
By Shriraksha Mohan, Andy Douglas, and Howard Nemon In most political democracies, elections have become a mere formality of choosing a leader who appears to be the lesser of two or more evils. In a two-party democracy like the USA, voters have been choosing between the “immoral” and the “less immoral”, the “incompetent” and the “less incompetent” to maintain a
By Prabhakar T. Overland A certain socioeconomic issue seems to be staring the world’s legislators and policymakers in their face: How can a minimum of wealth be distributed to allow people to stay calm so that the economy remains intact? A bit like the Corona virus conundrum then: How many vaccinated people does it take for the pressure on hospitals
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