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
Network
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Hard to say, since their website seems to Russian only?
Maybe noteworthy that their website isn't hosted in Russia and the prices seem to be listed in US $, which lets me suspect their target audience is Russians in exile?
Outside hosting is very natural move every activist should consider. The prices are probably listed based on location, their telegram channel shows prices in rubles, and also lists retail shops that sell their books in Moscow, few other cities in Russia, Ukraine, and also a few other places worldwide (including SF, USA). No matter where they print, they distribute in hell.
I'm trying to figure out how exactly they pull this out, I know publishing houses that were busted for stuff that even slightly deviated from propaganda.
Heck, test them with queer content regarding Xi Jinping as pooh bear having hardcore sex with Vladimir and how to build something contrabanded in both.
Found their free content tg channel, they have books on Tiang-An-Men square event or whatever it's called, and surely some queer stuff. Illegalism seems to be mainstream in Russian society nowadays, the biggest outcome of international trade limitations IMO, but these guys do not post anything like direct action guides. It's not like there are Russians who don't know how to build a bomb at home; stealing one is probably simpler by now though.
I suppose the point is that society is quite capable of messing things up for Putin, and all hasn't really fallen because they massively buy into propaganda and benefit from corruption and the war versus momentary non-corrupt non-war hypothetical scenario while suffering from capitalist stuff more than anyone. Thus, this kind of activism seems like the right thing, but who knows? At least government punishes them for free speech more than for anything else it seems.