Anarchism and Social Ecology
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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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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.
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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I read through it with an as open mind as possible. I agree that the current justice system is lacking in some aspects, especially the focus on punishing crime rather than helping the victim or preventing further crime. But I quickly lost any faith in the system proposed in the first part.
These two things don't add up. How can a "neutral" mediator have the goal for one of the parties to confess to something? I already have issues with the concept of survivors being involved in the process of who gets selected in the AT but I could somehow understand it. It makes sense that in a process that focuses on the survivor's healing, the survivor should trust the mediators involved. And I can understand that forming a non-authoritative mediator is a challenge. And the process of selecting the team seemed to be as genuine of an attempt at forming a good council as it gets. But mixing the victim selecting the council, and having the council's goal to get a confession is a system bound for disaster and abuse.
But how can any 'perpetrator' enter the process if the only way to resolve it is to admit to the allegations? That sounds more like the Spanish Inquisition than an Accountability Team.
Yes, the document goes into this issue a bit later on but has no solution to it. Heck, it even suggests group vigilantism as a valid solution. I understand that a group with 0 authoritative institutions or persons has a difficult time dealing with troublemakers. But I don't think we need to further explain why vigilantism doesn't work.
you bring up good points, thank you for sharing them. I'll post more literature on the topic once I read through more but I thought this was a good start.