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.
Libraries
Audiobooks
- General audiobooks
- LibriVox Public domain book collection where you can find audiobooks from old communist, socialist, and anarchist authors.
- Anarchist audiobooks
- Socialist Audiobooks
- Social Ecology 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.
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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Speaking on the personal level:
For whatever reason, the right is a big tent. Most people just need to agree on a few points to be accepted into whatever group they wanna join.
For some reason, that doesn't seem to be true on the left. We expect our peers (and ourselves) to be flawless exemplars of whatever agenda we're trying to push. There seem to be weird purity tests that everyone needs to pass in order to be Left Enough.
That's toxic af and it harms our goals.
I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to, OP, but it gets my goat.
The right is not a big tent. The top 1% of people own half the wealth, so like... each person is a "big tent" all on their own. Importantly, the right doesn't actually believe in anything other than whatever they can get away with "right now". You can see this in the fact that the primaries in the US still have Trump as the head, and a party which is increasingly losing its grip.
Which is also not exactly a good thing btw, the democrats without a balancing force are just as dangerous.
Purity tests are great. I'm on a political discord server and they ask all new members if they're going to call trans people slurs. Everyone who believes in calling trans people slurs gets kicked, and that means it's a safe space for trans people. That leads to more left unity.