Check it, Felipe Corrêa has a new article looking at the various debates in the anarchist tradition!

From the abstract:

Fredy Perlman’s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement’s post-1960s revival, quite apart from his later and better-known critiques of domestication. Perlman’s longneglected books, pamphlets and parodies from 1968–1972 show him championing an antivanguardist ethos of direct action and practical de-alienation, while working towards an original and distinctly anarchist social theory of domination. This article traces the influences of Isaak Rubin, C. Wright Mills, and possibly Henri Lefebvre and Peter Kropotkin, on Perlman’s thought. Perlman’s originality was to generalise a heterodox Marxian critique of social reproduction, including but exceeding productive relations. Thus, he explicitly sets the state in analytical parity with capital, theorising authority as a fetish distinct from exchange value. Implicitly, he points to other containers for alienated powers, including the family, religion and scholarship. Perlman’s account of self- and community powers remains incomplete, however, eliding constitutive violence and inviting engagement with current intersectional approaches.

The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human. ~Murray Bookchin

Check out one of the greatest books on the philosophy of green anarchism.

Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”

The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and lush, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid.

Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the struggles en route to a better world , but never dystopian. As our world roils with calamity, we need solutions, not only warnings.

Solutions to thrive without fossil fuels, to equitably manage real scarcity and share in abundance instead of supporting false scarcity and false abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share.

Solarpunk is at once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, a way of living and a set of achievable proposals to get there.

Solarpunk recognizes that climate change, the consequences of centuries of damage, aren’t averted in the future. Yet it still manages to incorporate hope. A future where we’ve got a lot of work to do, but we’re doing better. We’re using technology for more uplifting ends. Like seed bombing drones and solar ovens. Solarpunk emphasizes real-world application. It’s all about what we do here and now, from DIY projects to larger organization. Solarpunk is also very aesthetic, as I’m sure you’ve realized. It uses a lot of nature motifs and takes inspiration from art nouveau, upcycling, and Asian and African styles and artistic movements.

Hello all, I was wandering how would a production of things like microchips, solar panels and motors (and other electrical components) be managed in a anarchist, solarpunk society?

Any ideas and further reading will be helpful.

While science fiction most often conjures up images of technology and the so-called ‘hard sciences’, writers in the genre also address human social relations. One of the exemplars of this tradition is Kim Stanley Robinson. In his award-winning Mars trilogy, Red,Green and Blue Mars, Robinson uses the idea of transforming Mars into a habitable planet to explore the ethics and limits of the human ability to (re)produce nature. Philosophically and theoretically, Robinson’s writing has particular relevance to the work of social ecologist Murray Bookchin. The Mars trilogy provides a fruitful exploration of what Bookchin refers to as third or free nature, a synthesis of first (bio-physical) nature and second (human social) nature wherein humans ‘co-operate’ with first nature and directly participate in the evolution of life.

For those interested both in social ecology and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, this is a very interesting chapter!

Solarpunk is innately about hope for a better future, but Desert is rather about the impossibility to save the world from climate change and the opportunities for anarchy that arise after the world's end. It's not as if Desert is devoid of hope, but rather it sees hope and possibilities within the end of the world. In that respect, there is some overlap with solarpunk, but I can't help but think the nihilism doesn't jive well with the solarpunk ethos.

The essay "Towards a Liberatory Technology" is particularly useful for solarpunks as it deals with how technology could be used in a liberatory and ecological way.

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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first anti-authoritarian international, international meetings are being prepared in the Swiss Jura mountains. They will take place from July 19 to 23, 2023 - with an extension of a few days to allow time and space for spontaneous meetings. We are making this appeal to clarify the role of these meetings, that is to say our concrete motivations, as well as the way we wish to organize them.

In a world that seems to be increasingly neutralizing radical protest - between repression, recuperation and control - it seems necessary to meet physically, as anarchists. In order to reflect collectively on the issues that matter to us, and in particular on the political and social evolutions of the last few years, and to continue to deepen the critiques that emancipate us. In order to learn more about the concrete struggles that are taking place everywhere, told by those who lead them. To form new hopes for the future. To build strong links between different anti-authoritarian groups and individuals, to strengthen solidarity between struggles across borders. And to make new people want to join them.

Why are there anarchists—who are anti-statist and aim for the destruction of the very roots of statist systems—that support the independence of West Papua and the creation of a new State there?

“The most tantalizing feature of the ancient Indus Valley remains is what they appear to lack: any trace of a ruling class or managerial elite. This defies the longtime theoretical assumption that any complex society must have stratified social relations: that collective action, urbanization, and economic specialization only develop in a very unequal culture that takes direction from the top, and that all social trajectories evolve toward a common and universal outcome, the state.”

Here, we have hurriedly translated three statements from Russian anarchist groups. All of them, of necessity, are underground groups. The first is based in Siberia; the second is the Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization, which we interviewed last year; and the third is the editorial collective of Avtonom, arguably Russia’s most significant surviving anarchist publishing platform.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853128

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This booklet provides an excellent introduction to social ecological theory as practiced by the Democratic Self-Governance of Northern Syria or Rojava.

Heya folks, since there were already a number of anarchism instances across the lemmyverse, I thought it might be a good idea to make the one on SLRPNK a bit distinct with an explicit inclusion of social ecology into this community. Social ecology, after all, is a bit like solarpunk but also social scientific and political-theoretical. It includes many of the direct democratic aspirations alongside discussions of the liberatory and ecological role of technology.

“The revolution in Rojava has captured international attention for its feminist and democratic character, but there is much less awareness of its strong environmental dimension. Creating a world where both women and the natural world can thrive are deeply connected in Rojava. Jineology, the Kurdish word for the feminist “science of women,” comes from Jin, meaning woman, which shares the root word Jiyan, meaning life. This event will explain how democracy, women’s empowerment, and social ecology are interrelated and central to the vision of a different world being built in Kurdistan, from Rojava to Bakur.”

a longer form discussion providing more background to the Make Rojava Green Again post

This was written by anarchist survivors of sexual violence and abuse. It digs into the different approaches to deal with serious harm with the goal of not recreating the same oppressive systems of state “justice”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1069930

Edit: Based off of a suggestion from someone I am rewriting this post to be more informative

I have been working on a mobile app that is supposed to help groups of people coordinate their actions towards a shared goal. I'm done with the basic features (I'm talking barebones here) and I am trying to find a community or two that would be willing to work with me to test and improve it.

The way the app currently works is that someone sets up a community name that other members of the community would use to get into a group. Anyone in the community can suggest goals for the community but the goal that is shown first is the most approved goal. In addition to suggesting goals anyone in the community would be able to suggest tasks that someone else in the community can either approve of and/or contribute towards. Finally if you click on a task there is the opportunity suggest and vote on reasons for doing or not doing a task.

The philosophy of this app is that if people are working towards a shared goal then individuals will choose to take actions that push that shared goal forward. The main thing stopping people is the lack of clear actions and steps that someone as an individual should take to help push that goal forward. That is what this app is trying to fix.

The following are some screenshots of what the current app looks like:

Main Page:

Task Page:

Add Goal/Task Page:

Add Reason Page:

Profile page:

Not entirely sure if this fits here, but I thought this was an interesting article regarding the effectiveness of worker co-ops, which are often derided in the U.S. as somehow incapable of long term survival.