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While democratic politics blurs the distinction of state and society, ‘authoritarian-total’ politics will carefully distinguish them; while the former politicizes society and ‘societalizes’ the state, the second will depoliticize society and strengthen the state, but within the strict limits of a properly understood distinction between state and economy. As the class struggle has thus been brought under the iron heel of the state, ‘the economy’ can flourish anew. A strong state, a healthy economy.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Woodhouse suggests in *The Ecocentrists* that both the mainstream environmental movement, devoted to lobbying, and its radical stepchildren, bent on direct action, made a mistake, as long ago as the late 1960s, when they divorced their campaign to protect nonhuman nature from programs for the renovation of society. The result was a misanthropic movement that wrote off as hopeless or, at best, inconvenient the very constituency—the population of industrial societies—that would have been needed to effect its program.
The Climate Case for Property Destruction
Benjamin Kunkel
The preliminary sketches for this updated self-portrait are under way, revealing five broad shifts in how we can best depict our economic selves. First, rather than narrowly self-interested we are social and reciprocating. Second, in place of fixed preferences, we have fluid values. Third, instead of isolated we are interdependent. Fourth, rather than calculate, we usually approximate. And fifth, far from having dominion over nature, we are deeply embedded in the web of life.
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
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