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Post-Capitalist Compatibility: Degrowth, Indigenous Wisdom, and Prout

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 …

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Solving the Inequality Gap: Progressive Taxation or Economic Democracy?

By Roar Bjonnes When editor-in-chief of multinational business magazine Fortune, Alyson Shontell, asked in its June/July 2022 issue if it’s time for a maximum wage, she got my attention. Back in the early 90’s, when I was editor of Prout Journal, I published an article by Sam Pizzigati, co-editor of Inequality.org, which emphatically proclaimed that …

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