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
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Abdula Ocalan has been in solitary confinement for what, a decade? Two? Literally every message "from him" has to be considered under duress.
Yep. Pasting my comment from another thread:
There is weird politicking and bizarre bedfellows happening in Turkish politics right now. Erdogan's allies to his right are advocating for Ocalan's release as some sort of diplomatic manuever. Ocalan's own nephew I believe has made it into parliament as a relatively outspoken Kurd, and I imagine he is doing the same for more personal reasons.
Meanwhile Ocalan has been pumping out some of the most excitingly radical and revolutionary libertarian socialist ideological literary material in the world in our lifetimes from solitary confinement (Yes it's torture) over the past 15 years, springboarding off the ideas of Murray Bookchin and instructing the PKK to abandon Marxism in favor of Democratic Confederalism, which they mostly appear to have done despite Kurdish culture's continued cult of personality around him. I can't help but wonder if this is a test: Turkey wants him to say one thing publicly, and he's hedging his bets that his comrades will know to not listen.
Yes, this is obviously coerced. Nobody who has even skimmed his wikipedia page would ever believe he would want the PKK to just fold.