摘要：The paper deals with the politics for an alternative, ecofeminist economy. Starting with the diagnosis of the present economic, ecological and social crisis as being the crisis of civilization, respectively of its value system, I point to the necessity of a new social contract. No longer can the economy of scale, of commodities, consumerism and profit maximization dominate the cultures around the world, but we need an orientation towards of what is necessary for a good living, hence a subsistence perspective. There follows the description of what ‘subsistence’ means and four principles for a politics of subsistence are delineated by means of concrete examples. 1. The politics of subsistence are politics of daily life, decentralized, and practised by the sovereign individual as a so called politics from below; 2. Subsistence politics are dealing with the realm of necessity, with immanency as against the transcendence of the growth economy; 3. The politics of subsistence are based in the concrete matter, in the body, and in the senses as against the abstraction of the money system and the anonymity of the commodity; 4. The subsistence politics serves to restore the community in the holistic sense of Mother Earth.
