Anarchism and Social Ecology

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A community about anarchy. anarchism, social ecology, and communalism for SLRPNK! Solarpunk anarchists unite!

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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.

Libraries

• The Anarchist Library
• Libcom.org
• The Communalist Library
• Syndicalism.org
• Marxists Internet Archive

Audiobooks

• General audiobooks
  • LibriVox Public domain book collection where you can find audiobooks from old communist, socialist, and anarchist authors.
• Anarchist audiobooks
  • Resonance: An Anarchist Audio Distro
  • AudibleAnarchist
  • Audio Anarchy
  • Black Flag Audiobooks
  • Revolutionary Audiobooks
• Socialist Audiobooks
  • Audible Socialism
  • Marxism Audio Books from the Marxists Internet Archive
  • Theory Audiobooks
  • Leftist Theory Audiobooks
  • Cosmonaut Magazine
• Social Ecology Audiobooks
  • r/communalists Audiobooks

Quotes

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.

~Abdullah Öcalan

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

Network

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MODERATORS

2:19 Let's talk about in the Middle East for example
 where Chevron says we are experiencing terrorist 
 bombings and therefore we have to have a big 
 operation in the in the West Bank and and root out 
 terrorism

2:30 and and people say "hey you're violating human
 rights"

2:34 Yeah the what's that this is the 35th year of a 
 harsh brutal and vicious occupation supported 
 unilaterally by the United States, constant terror and

2:44 atrocities -- suppose Palestinians say

2:48 "well we're under terrorist attack for 35 years 
 therefore we have a right to carry out suicide 
 bombings" -- do you accept this? 

2:55 Does anybody except this? Nobody accepts this. 
 Right, then how come

2:59 everyone accepts the Israeli claim to be doing it 
 which is much weaker claim?

3:04  They are the military occupiers.

3:08  Those who defend suicide bombing, and 
 they're very few, have not a leg to stand on.

3:14 Those who defend the Israeli atrocities, 
 including the US government,

3:20 most intellectual opinion, a good bit of the West 
 generally, yeah they don't have a leg to stand on 
 either -- and have a much weaker position.

3:27 You asked us after September 11 one of your 
 points we ought to look in the mirror we being 
 America or the West way to look in the mirror at

3:34 our own was that a way of saying look people 
 like bin Laden are angry at us

3:41 for good reason why what I was saying

3:46 The statement of mine that you just quoted is a 
 very conservative statement;

3:51 In fact it was articulated by George Bush's 
 favorite philosopher Jesus Christ who pointed out 
 famously defined the notion hypocrite -- 

4:04 a hypocrite is a person who focuses on the other 
 fellas crimes and refuses to look at his own.