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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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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

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you please link to the article on a source other than Patreon? We only allow occasional self-promotion for established community members, and linking to your own Patreon is a bit too much.

[–] ChanceHappening@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] solo@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don't know if you are ziq and self-promoting your material, or if you are just huge fan. From your profile, it looks like you post only stuff related to ziq.

Now it's not only about promoting raddle and its sockpupet accounts echoying ziq, to say the least. It was also related to concentration of power. Supposedly this was handdled? Because ziq said so? Anyways, now, it's for patreon, for money. Please, enough.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They are ziq, their comments on other posts make that pretty obvious.

[–] ChanceHappening@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I linked to the blog version because the original version - posted on raddle - blocks several countries including the UK due to the online safety act. I didn't ask anyone for money, it's just a useful way to host a text that isn't in-depth enough to put on the anarchist library.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 2 weeks ago

but how would anarchy solve (insert problem the current system isn't even attempting to solve and likely causes)? Hmmmmm?