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
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Very off topic but that's an 8 year old post. I completely left for a year, tried to transfer the site to other admins (they didn't want it) and then they voted for me to come back because the tankies who I apologised to were, among other things, DDOSing the site, doxxing people and spreading bigotry. The admins currently are mofongo, emma (sys admin) and me. Tequila_Wolf was recently forced to leave due to a stalker who was holding the whole site hostage for a year (search the site for 'ruminator').
Anyway please focus on the content of the essay, I don't want to rehash decade old drama with strangers.
The way I see things, it's not about old drama. I am trying to have a talk about a community that you own and actively promote.
So, doesn't it make you wonder that in almost a decade you didn't manage to decentralise the ~~platform~~ project you created, while in the same time you have been writing so many theoretical texts about anarchy?
Don't you see the gap between theory and practice? How do you intend to bridge this gap?
Edit: correction - the strikethrough, added the word project
You need to diversify your posting activity so it isn't so obvious you're a serial stalker and the mods on this forum should really stop letting people with obvious agendas hijack convos to harass the OP.
Stick to the topic, Ziq. I responded directly to your post. Unless the real issue is that you are unable to answer it?
For a person who has given their entire life to perfecting the art of grooming via entryism and sockpuppeteering, you reallllllllllllly should avoid pathologizing.
I was told by a mod/admin here not to link to my blog so I have no choice but to link to the raddle version of the article. Normally I wouldn't link to raddle on a space that's not specifically anarchist.
Anarchy has nothing to do with federated technology from my perspective. I'm not interested in arguing with you about this when it has nothing to do with the topic. I think we should delete our comments so we don't get told off by the mods for breaking the rules.
Let's clarify that you call _ blog_ is patreon, a monetizing platform.
In relation to your link, I corrected my previous comment to reflect what I meant.
all blogs are monetizing platforms the only difference is that one is voluntary and doesn't force ads on you
I'm not an expert on blogging, but NoBlogs.org seems like a great alternative to patreon.
I understand that you think writers shouldn't accept donations for their essays, but I personally don't see an issue with it, so I have no reason to move to another platform. Same as I have no reason to make raddle federated because you think a site automatically pushing user data to external servers where it can never be deleted is ideologically desirable. We have different needs and desires.