Archive of The Future Is Degrowth

Utopian thinking for a different world.

From anticapitalist theory to abolitionist politics to the cult of Winston Churchill, these books will better your understanding of what happened this year.

A reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

We need radical ideas and systemic change to combat the urgent threat of climate disaster. This reading list of eco-utopian thinking can help guide us.

The Covid-19 pandemic further exposed a world geared toward collapse – degrowth argues that we should radically change our economic system to save the planet and build a more sustainable world for all.

Our top 20 bestselling books of the Student Reading Sale – get them all for 40% off!

Books on work and Marxist theory, from across 50 years of publishing at Verso!

As authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue in their thrilling and provocative new book, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth—but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good.

Here the authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.

Half-Earth Socialism is a provocative, brilliant, beguiling little book that works in the best Marxist utopian tradition: bringing the scientific mind’s clear-eyed analysis together with the heart’s world of imagination and what-might-be.

Books that imagine a different working world.