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Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.
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.
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
Just to let you know it might be a good idea to hold off posting stuff from Sophie from Mars. She has been involved in a lot of terrible things and as such anyone in the know might find posting her stuff in bad taste.
Can get links later if you'd like.
Huh I didn't know. Yeah send those links if you have them. What was the general gist of what she has done?
Edit: Also do you have any thoughts on the video though. I still think the content is informative.
Warnings for: Abuse with no real apology, a lot of people saying a lot of nasty stuff.
https://reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/18h7teb/sophie_from_mars_responds_to_a_letter_from_her/
https://reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1cxdlxz/sophie_from_mars_after_being_exposed_for_abusive/
She helped an abuser (the person who used to run the We're in Hell channel: Sam) 'negotiate' with their victim (Sam's partner at the time) and she did something against someone's consent (she put a cigarette out on them), which is a repeating pattern for her.
Will get the link(s) soon.
Sorry, I cannot bring myself to watch the video considering what I know.
But I hope those that can find its content helpful.
Oh god the linkspam with the moneybags emoji, the YouTube grift is so out of hand these days, especially these faux progressives like hontra, toob and this sex pest - all narcissists. We need to return to text-only content.
I think that's just everything in the description being jumbled up as one. Posting from invidious does that for some reason.
