Is Degrowth left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Degrowth scores −08 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −07. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Degrowth authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Degrowth scores −05. Citizens' assemblies, commons governance, subsidiarity.

Atlas / Organisations / Degrowth

Degrowth

2002– · Europe, Latin America · Ecological · Doctrine / school · coding confidence medium

−08ECcollective

−07CUpluralist

−05AUpluralist

−06SClocal

−07IDuniversal

+02CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Planned reduction of material throughput in rich economies, with wellbeing decoupled from GDP.

Economic model

Working time reduction, caps on resource use, universal basic services, limits on advertising and private jets.

Organisation of powers

Citizens' assemblies, commons governance, subsidiarity.

Reading note

Rejects the growth premise shared by nearly every other coordinate in the dataset, left and right alike.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored −08

Coded −8: caps on material throughput and universal basic services.

Programme textProgramme proposals centre on working-time reduction, resource caps and public provision of essentials.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −07

Coded −7: post-materialist and egalitarian.

Programme textThe literature ties ecological limits to distributive justice as a single argument.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −05

Coded −5: citizens' assemblies and commons governance.

ScholarshipOstrom's commons research is a standing reference for the movement's governance proposals.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −06

Coded −6: subsidiarity and bioregional scale.

Programme textProposals favour relocalised production over global supply chains.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −07

Coded −7: explicitly global in the distribution of obligations.

Programme textThe argument requires contraction in rich economies specifically, to permit growth elsewhere.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +02

Coded +2: planned transition, with a movement wing practising direct action.

ScholarshipThe literature calls for planned reduction; associated movements have used occupation and blockade.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Degrowth. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/degrowth/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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