Anarchism and Social Ecology
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A community about anarchy. anarchism, social ecology, and communalism for SLRPNK! Solarpunk anarchists unite!
Feel free to ask questions here. We aspire to make this space a safe space. SLRPNK.net's basic rules apply here, but generally don't be a dick and don't be an authoritarian.
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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I see them in lemmy too damn much!
Why does lemmy have so many anti-self-defense creeps‽
Lemmy was founded by anti-self defense creeps, because they got kicked out of the usual platforms. The sentiment changed, when Reddit did its API bs and a lot of Redditors came to lemmy, but the old group is still around. They have a pretty narrow world view of West evil everybody else good and that means any sort of defense of the West especially by force has to be opposed.
Maybe I misread Lemmy’s history. Because if that's the case, I choose the wrong network, again.
I’m really going to host my own jabber instance, huh. SIP would take me soooo long.
Lemmy is a single server software in a threadiverse. Piefed, mbin/kbin, NodeBB...
Which one’s most anarchist?
I’m prob. gonna jabberfy. Threadiverse supports groupθnk, which is stupidely dangerous.
The point of Lemmy is that anyone can make their own instance.
If a game launched with private servers would you boycott the entire thing because a Nazi runs one?
The only problem with the Lemmy anarchist instances, of which there are plenty, is they keep believing Hexbear when they promise to behave so you have to block the instance manually.
Honestly, they are less hassle than the libs nowadays.
Hexbear is defederated on slrpnk.net precisely because their (the Hexbear admins') promises are not credible. If they ever manage to change the toxic culture of their userbase we are happy to revisit that, but so far I don't see any indication of that.
The issue I’m realizing now is that the game right now breeds Nazis.
And I need to make a protocol/network that encourages anarchist praxis.
It’ll have to be p2p for sure.
Evidence kinda suggest the opposite, see Nostr, SimpleX and the like.
Although I agree that many design decisions in Lemmy reflect either the developers' hierachical preferences or are strait up copies of the hierachical design of Reddit. The Fediverse can certainly do better than that.
Hmmmm🤔 Now I have more to think about.
With federated media like Lemmy, Piefed, etc, you will have a large cross section of ideologies, with some being more catered toward Anarchists than others depending on the specific instance.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ and https://slrpnk.net/ likely have the highest percentage of Anarchists.
Slrpnk represent!
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Why do you think there was a strong anti-military popular movement in the second half ofthe twentieth century?
Lemmy isn't that old. But IG I’m being corrected on my poor comprehension of threadiverse history.