Notes
*This is a translation of Latouche, S. 2010. La Gauche peut-elle sortir de l’économisme? La Décroissance 70: 5.
1Sartre used the expression désespérer Billancourt to deride the French Communist Party tactic of not telling workers the entire truth lest it provoke demoralization. Billancourt, a metaphor for workers, was a Renault factory with some of the largest concentrations of workers in 1950s France.