Overthrowing Growth: Eco-Marxism and the growth of Degrowth

Ryan M. Katz-Rosene

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Growth–Environment Debate, 2025, pp 96-121 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Unlike the growth agnostics covered in Chapter 4, those covered in this chapter hold an “atheistic” position on growth- that is, they actively identify the contemporary societal pursuit of growth as the core cause of environmental unsustainability. Further, they seek to dismantle Growthism and envision the radical construction of a more just, planned, post-capitalist, and post-growth society. In this chapter, I explain the rapid growth (ironically) of the “Degrowth” movement in recent years. Additionally, I discuss a variety of eco-Marxist theories which are deeply critical of growth and which call for planned reductions in the material size of the global economy. The chapter begins by highlighting an Indigenous ecological perspective which has embedded a critique of Growthism (and the latter’s inevitable connection to “extractivism”) within its perspective of how to achieve “the Good Life.”

Keywords: Degrowth; Growthism; Treadmill of Production; Eco-Marxism; Extractivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035333516
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