{"id":15522,"date":"2015-12-21T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2015-12-21T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:19:38","slug":"from-growth-economics-to-home-economics-towards-a-peasant-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15522","title":{"rendered":"From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"item_detail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2015-12-21\/from-growth-economics-to-home-economics-towards-a-peasant-socialism\" target=\"_blank\">From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-app-id=\"17983670\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui    top-counter  \">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<ul class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons\">\n<li class=\"shareaholic-share-button ng-scope has-shares\" title=\"Facebook\" data-service=\"facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/articles\/General\/2015\/12_Dec\/land2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article_body_detail dinNormal\">\n<div>As a student in the 1980s, I was educated by probably the last generation of academics who found it possible to identify wholeheartedly with Marxism. They were good people and clever thinkers, and I suppose I became a Marxist myself for a time under their influence. I never made a good revolutionary, but I believed in science, progress, rationality and, above all, equality. I was acutely conscious of how lucky I was to be a privileged citizen of a privileged country \u2013 privileges that in many ways were built on the backs of less fortunate people. So, if I thought much at all about the kind of society I wanted to see, I suppose it would have been one in which everyone could live a life like mine \u2013 an urban wage labourer working in the knowledge economy, shopping in the supermarket, and getting away for the odd weekend to the mountains to reconnect with the wilder side of life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Decades later, I\u2019m a mostly self-employed farmer working a small piece of land, growing a fair slice of my own food, with few opportunities to \u2018get away\u2019, but absorbed in the daily wildness of creating sustenance from the earth. I still believe in equality, and I still believe in science, progress and rationality, although in a more conflicted way than before. And when I now think about the kind of society I\u2019d like to see \u2013 which I do more often than I used to \u2013 I imagine one in which a lot of people live a similar kind of life to my present one. I have, in short, become an advocate for peasantisation, localisation, agrarian populism, anti-globalisation and degrowth \u2013 a cluster of ideas that I think of as an economics of the home<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism As a student in the 1980s, I was educated by probably the last generation of academics who found it possible to identify wholeheartedly with Marxism. 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