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.
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Audiobooks
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- 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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Weird that they aren’t doing anything outside the Bay Area in CA. Seems kind of pointless to do Oakland and SF given how close they are but nowhere else.
I am interested to hear what they have to say and wish their project well but I have heard some troubling things in recent years. I’ve had a hard time finding solid, recent information so if anyone has any, please share.
It is a bit disappointing that they aren't touring outside of that area. I'm on the East Coast and would love to attend this and I'm sure comrades outside Turtle Island would as well. Although it's certainly forgivable as travel can get costly. Given that it's listed as "West Coast Tour" I'm going to hope it goes well and try to remain optimistic that there will be an "East Coast Tour" and more to follow.
I'd also be interested in concrete info about what's going on there and certainly hope such a project isn't tainted by some problematic people within it.
Yeah I feel your pain but hopefully there will be one. I just think it’s weird to call it a west coast tour and ignore the largest city on the west coast in favor of Bellingham and Olympia.
I’m not incredibly far from Oakland so I might consider going. If anyone here has questions or wants a report back let me know.