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How Italian Workers Fought Back and Started an Eco-Revolution
In this video we look at Italy's longest running factory occupation, of the GKN automotive plant in Florence / Firenze Italy, which is now in its third years. The workers have occupied the space and developed a radical vision of how the plant could be run, producing for an ecological mobility industry.
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Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Degrowth
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If you would like a monthly postcapitalism and degrowth reading list and other goodies, head over to www.patreon.com/nowtopia In this video we examine misguided recent critiques of degrowth made by Jordan Peterson. 0:00-1:02 Introduction 1:02-2:02 Degrowth as anti-poor 2:02-4:00 On Overpopulation 4:00-4:49 Authoritarianism 4:49-5:49 Worsening environmental conditions 5:49-7:50 Positive visions ...
Towards a Hand Made Web?
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If you would like a monthly postcapitalism reading list and other goodies, head over to www.patreon.com/nowtopia Today's video discusses controversies around OpenAI, and how radical thinkers can relate to this challenging and worrying technology. Artificial intelligence is already transforming our societies, and we must consider how to respond to it. The video hints at a luddite or neo-luddite ...
Imagining a World Without Cars | Mobility & Capitalism
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Thanks for watching and subscribing! Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we will explore how lethal cars came to dominate social space, through examining what Ivan Illich called the 'radical monopoly' of the motor car,...
Why Economic Growth Does More Harm Than Good
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Thanks for watching and subscribing! Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we will look at 7 key arguments showing that it is, in fact, the pursuit of growth which undermines human and ecological security and wellbeing. ...
8 Ways Capitalism Kills and What We Can Do About It
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Thanks for watching and subscribing! Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we explore the deadly effects of capitalism through the idea of ‘capitalogenic disease’. While it is common to focus on the horrifying deaths and...
The Dark Side of the Tiny House Movement
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Thanks for watching and subscribing! Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia How do tiny homes link with life beyond capitalism? There are many amazing examples of sustainable and beautiful tiny houses, built on a budget, of course. But ...
Embracing Degrowth: The Controversial Path to Sustainable Economics
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia Do you ever wonder what social and intellectual movements exist which imagine a life beyond destructive capitalism and state socialism? What is Degrowth? In an era of ecological collapse, degrowth ...
Arrested for Giving Gifts: Anticapitalist Santa Claus Protest in Copenhagen
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we examine the strange case of the Santa Claus Army, organised by the theatre group Solvognen in Copenhagen in the 1970s. Part protest, part theatre, the Santa Claus Army caused chao...
A Free Market? 5 Capitalist Myths Debunked
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we will debunk 5 common myths about capitalism and growth: 0:00 Capitalism can grow infinitely 1:23 Capitalism is based on human nature 3:50 Capitalism is based on the free market 5:...
5 Myths About Degrowth Debunked
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, we will debunk five common myths about degrowth: 0:00 Degrowth is the same as recession 0:58 Degrowth means a reduction in everything 1:58 Degrowthers want everyone to be poorer 2:59...
The Premature End of Cybernetic Socialism (Project Cybersyn)
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia With Henry Kissinger having passed this week, we reflect on one of his legacies: the September 11th 1973 overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende, and the death of his vision of a cybernetic...
Degrowth Is More Popular Than You Think
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia This video touches on the social backlash against environmental policies, for instance in the UK with regard to Ultra Low Emissions Zones (Ulez) and on farming in the Netherlands. While this backla...
Social Solidarity Economy in 3 Minutes
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia In this video, I explore the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE), otherwise known as Social and Solidarity Economy. What is it, and what radical potential does it contain for transforming unsustainable...
Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE): A Postgrowth, Ecological Critique
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Looking to join a community interested in postcapitalism? Sign up for the free Nowtopia Patreon here, where we will explore postcapitalism and economic alternatives together: www.patreon.com/Nowtopia Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) is economically illiterate and ecologically disastrous. In this video, I explore why. While working on this video I came across this paper, which is usefu...
How to Bring About Nowtopia and Degrowth? Erik Olin Wright’s Four Strategic Logics
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How to Bring About Nowtopia and Degrowth? Erik Olin Wright’s Four Strategic Logics
Degrowth & Alternative Models of Prosperity - The Mediterranean Approach, by Giorgos Kallis
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Degrowth & Alternative Models of Prosperity - The Mediterranean Approach, by Giorgos Kallis
The "Anti-Capitalist" Café Controversy Everyone Is Talking About
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The "Anti-Capitalist" Café Controversy Everyone Is Talking About
"Goldman Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chickens" | Scaling, Degrowth and Postcapitalism
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"Goldman Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chickens" | Scaling, Degrowth and Postcapitalism
Nowtopia, Real Utopias and the Search for Postcapitalism
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Nowtopia, Real Utopias and the Search for Postcapitalism
Why We Must Rethink Limits to Growth
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Why We Must Rethink Limits to Growth
Nowtopia: A documentary about economic alternatives
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Nowtopia: A documentary about economic alternatives

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  • @BaajGill-c2x
    @BaajGill-c2x Місяць тому

    Ppl like this cafe owner is the reason our country is go down hill .All this capitalism is bad or stolen land is the biggest nonsense i ever heard .But it’s good to see these clown 🤡 out of business now

  • @nachoqualsevol554
    @nachoqualsevol554 Місяць тому

    it's so Star Trek from the 60s... absolutely incredible!

  • @TNS10000
    @TNS10000 2 місяці тому

    Commies see you as a number that should be controlled by a machine run by bureaucrats, think about it before ever voting for them

  • @BP-1972
    @BP-1972 2 місяці тому

    According to many scientist global warming should have killed is all by now. They have no idea what they are forecasting. It’s all BS.

  • @XD226
    @XD226 3 місяці тому

    LIAR

  • @XD226
    @XD226 3 місяці тому

    GFY ^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @joshbraun7152
    @joshbraun7152 3 місяці тому

    Degrowth has immense patalleles to a marxist idrology. Thats what he sees, thats why he says that.

  • @FeedbackFrames
    @FeedbackFrames 3 місяці тому

    New to me and inspiring. Reminds me of previous worker take-over in Argentina I recall from a 2004 documentary "The Take". I love the green pivot in this example. I hope more follow this lead - although it's tough without key enabling laws for such co-op transitions.

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 2 місяці тому

      Glad you enjoyed!

  • @beratnabodhi
    @beratnabodhi 4 місяці тому

    He's such a clown.

  • @xqt39a
    @xqt39a 4 місяці тому

    Apparently Peterson doesn’t understand the concept of planetary boundaries.

  • @jlaw2288
    @jlaw2288 4 місяці тому

    this is why third word countries will remain 3rd world countries...

  • @OboeWhizzy
    @OboeWhizzy 4 місяці тому

    One thing I've noticed is how much proponents of tiny homes have taken over the discussion on providing housing for homeless people. In Seattle, the tiny home advocates won out and an old parking lot near the university was converted into tiny homes for the homeless. This decision was upheld by our city over the proposal to turn that lot into a 5-7 story apartment building for low-income housing. This truly baffles me and other residents. The tiny homes village has been there for over a year now- while the apartment proposal would have provided hundreds of units of housing for struggling families, this set of tiny homes only provides the space for a single layer of residence. Even worse is the fact that each tiny home is separated, meaning more energy used to heat and insulate, worse connectivity to central facilities, and generally subpar protection when we have extreme cold or extreme heat. An additional issue is lack of accessibility and mismanagement by the agencies that run these tiny communities. The fact that the tiny homes solution was chosen by our city officials shows the utter lack of imagination by people who are conditioned to think single-family homes are the only way forward, instead of dense and affordable living.

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 4 місяці тому

      Love this comment. You're totally right!

  • @Kuna33_
    @Kuna33_ 4 місяці тому

    Thanks you did a great job here! While it is unfortunate that degrowth is so grossly misrepresented, I'm also happy that it is spoken about by people with a big following. Hopefully some of them, unlike Peterson, will feel drawn to actually do a bit of research on the topic.

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 4 місяці тому

      Thanks for the comment! Appreciate the sentiment. I think we are seeing in the French elections these last couple of days that there can be a widespread appeal to sufficiency and post-productivism. Just need to keep talking and acting

  • @dougcane4059
    @dougcane4059 5 місяців тому

    Capitalism can only grow if it steals resources from other countries and murders it's leaders. That is why capitalism is in trouble, because it can't steal from Russia or China or India. The English Empire for example, killed over a hundred million Indians and stole their resources until they were kicked out.

  • @LCTesla
    @LCTesla 5 місяців тому

    A lot of people are ignorantly freaking out about earth's population peaking sometime soon. But all it means is that we HAVE to embrace degrowth economics. A well managed population decline will be marvelous for humanity.

  • @Mhark127
    @Mhark127 5 місяців тому

    It's basically socialism

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 5 місяців тому

      Depends what you understand by that!

  • @silverhawkscape2677
    @silverhawkscape2677 6 місяців тому

    He understands what Degrowth is. As a Person from a developing nation I oppose degrowth.

  • @Obscurity202
    @Obscurity202 6 місяців тому

    That's a lovely accent mate

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 6 місяців тому

      A strange hybrid perhaps

  • @waxon2
    @waxon2 7 місяців тому

    This is fantastic!! And I was completely unaware of it. Thank you for the heads up on the Marcora Law and the success these brave and determined workers have had. This is the Way.

    • @nowtopia
      @nowtopia 7 місяців тому

      So glad you enjoyed! And solidarity on this May Day!<3