Degrowth has been at the centre of ecological economics since the days of its inception. Recently, degrowth scholarship and practice have turned to questions of strategy. This long-neglected debate on degrowth & strategy is essential to develop a solid theory of social-ecological-economic political change. Locating my approach at the interface of cultural political economy and ecological economics, I seek to critically contribute to these recent debates on degrowth & strategy. In so doing, this paper promotes a dialectical approach to degrowth and identifies three areas that currently hamper successful strategising: a rejection of hegemony, a focus on similar values in building alliances, and the primacy of bottom-up organising