On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 6:02 PM Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In my essay at the beginning of this thread, I was critical of John > Bellamy Foster's excessive emphasis on the need for central planning to > guide a degrowth process. This is not to say there should be no planning. > Planning is inevitable. My point is that planning must not play the leading > role in a degrowth process but should be subordinated to democratization of > production and substantial reduction of "economic" working time. Gorz > provided the rationale for this in his *New Left Review* article on > Political Ecology. > Tom, do you think a reduction in working time can be accomplished without planning? Without that, it would need to be accomplished through the market. The reduction to 40-hour weeks was accomplished mostly by the markets for 40-hour/week adult labor. I think a 20-hour work week movement faces a much different set of conditions today than last century given neoliberalized global supply chains. cheers, Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30687): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30687 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/100605945/21656 Mute #degrowth:https://groups.io/g/marxmail/mutehashtag/degrowth Mute #planning:https://groups.io/g/marxmail/mutehashtag/planning Mute #disposabletime:https://groups.io/g/marxmail/mutehashtag/disposabletime -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
