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Alfredo Maria Bonanno has died

Rest in power, we lost a real one.

Friends: I Celebrate You All! :)

Hey everyone, fellow anarchist. I just wanted to take a moment to celebrate:...

Who remembers the Armenians and Palestinians?

Najwan Darwish: Who Remembers the Armenians?...

Anarchy and Social Ecology 101 [2023-10-27]

Heya folks, let’s try something new. I liked that people asked questions about anarchism in the David Graeber post. Every now and then I’ll be posting these meta threads where people are free to ask questions on anarchism or social ecology and hopefully people knowledgeable can answer.

Having trouble reading theory and literature? Try this audiobook list I made for anarchism, socialism, and social ecology

General audiobooks...

Anyone interested in making video games?

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5915428...

What are y'all's critique of Bookchin?

Bookchin prefigured many ideas in solarpunk and degrowth before these things were even coined. But what are your critiques of him?

“Revolution and insurrection must not be looked upon as synonymous” (Max Stirner)

Revolution and insurrection must not be looked upon as synonymous. The former consists in an overturning of conditions, of the established condition or status, the state or society, and is accordingly a political or social act; the latter has indeed for its unavoidable consequence a transformation of circumstances, yet does not...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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