2
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
2 points (52.4% liked)
Anarchism and Social Ecology
1288 readers
32 users here now
!anarchism@slrpnk.net
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
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Electoralism is a false dichotomy. It's like when I would tell my small kids, "Would you like to leave the playground in 5 minutes, or in 10? Okay, now let's set a timer and when it's done we're going." We're doing what I decided in the end, but I know they'll come without a fight because I gave them the most minor of choice in the matter.
It's a more sophisticated method of control, not actual power sharing.
Also notice the electoralists in this thread have nothing of substance to argue, they're just saying, "No." Cool, sounds like you've thought this through.
The problem is that metaphorically it's less that and more you going to your kids
"So would you like to be murdered by me in 10 minutes or would you like severe ass beatings in 10 minutes? By the way if you say both is bad and refuse to choose the latter I will still murder you"
A lot of us are fighting for our lives and trying not to let the ultrafascists that would LOVE shooting us on the spot take control. It's messed up, wrong in every way and we shouldn't be blackmailed this way by the people who "represent" us.
I'll always be against elections but I won't just refuse to participate in them for the sheer fact that if I don't, my existence might be made illegal very fast.
Okay but are you saying you'll vote, or are you saying you'll canvass and provide other material long term support? I vote, of course, it's a 15 minute commitment where I am. I sure as hell won't give the process my full time and attention.
This is the difficult thing when discussing this issue. People like to discuss it as if it's only about voting.
In this case there are three major positions: electoralism; just vote; refuse to vote.
The issue being mentioned in the OP is electoralism, and people are in the comments thinking we're talking about whether or not to vote, which we're not.
Also in general when you look at who doesn't vote, you'll find it's not coming from a position of privilege. It's the most vulnerable communities that tend not to vote, because they are usually vulnerable because they've been neglected or even attacked from both sides of the aisle, and they are also often gerrymandered to the point their vote literally wouldn't matter.