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Anarchism
Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.
Social Ecology
Social Ecology, developed from green anarchism, is the idea that our ecological problems have their ultimate roots in our social problems. This is because the domination of nature and our ecology by humanity has its ultimate roots in the domination humanity by humans. Therefore, the solutions to our ecological problems are found by addressing our social and ecological problems simultaneously.
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Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.
~ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom
People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.
~Anonymous, but quoted by Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
~Murray Bookchin, "A Politics for the Twenty-First Century"
There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.
~Murray Bookchin, Post Scarcity Anarchism
In modern times humans have become a wolf not only to humans, but to all nature.
The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution...
~Abdullah Öcalan
Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.
~ Murray Bookchin
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Ok I read the article you linked I agree it is a good article, but it isn't really saying that it is a full alternative to what is proposed in the article I linked. It specifically notes in the end that:
"She highlights how conventional models may be useful for predicting behaviour of large scale CPRs."
I was aware of Elinor Ostrom's work before. I'm definitely excited to do a deep dive into it.
The model described in the article I linked could be very useful in those cases @anarchism
I think part of the reason why she doesn't give specific solutions is because in her research she found that the solutions that the community used was dependent on the kinds of people in that community which made the solutions to diverse to just boil down to one thing.
Instead she came up with general principles that you could see show up consistently in all the solutions that were studied.
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I guess that's fair for the situations where she says conventional models aren't useful.
We don't have to treat the described institutions in the article I linked as one-size fits all model, but rather as an example of solutions that make sense under a certain set of conditions for large-scale communities.
Glen Weyl is aware of Elinor Ostrom's work:
https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/2019-01-14-j73qnz/
@anarchism
Also sorry for coming off a bit antagonistic. Didn't get much sleep.
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It's all good. You sent me a great article that reignited my desire to a deep dive on Elinor Ostrom and raised good points