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Full Idea
Marx and his heirs promote a productivist socialism, but utopian socialists such as William Morris offer a less productivist and more decentralised form of socialism.
Gist of Idea
Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised
Source
Andrew Dobson (Environmental Politics: very short intro [2016], 2)
Book Ref
Dobson,Andrew: 'Environmental Politics: Very Short Intro' [OUP 2016], p.43
A Reaction
Modern history teaches us to be very cautious about the centralised version. Presumably you could be decentralised but still value production highly, even if it is a bit less efficient.
| 23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
| 23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
| 23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
| 23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
| 23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
| 23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
| 23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
| 23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
| 23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |