Anarchism and Social Ecology

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Why the State Can't Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement ( crimethinc.com )

First We Take Columbia: Lessons from the April 1968 occupations movement ( illwill.com )

I. Occupations are effective because they are disruptive. The April 1968 occupations shut down the entire university for over a week. This forced the administration to concede to their demands, even after the movement faced repression....

Happy May Day! ( margaretkilljoy.substack.com )

There's hope, kids!

The Basis & Preliminary Examination for a Theory of Asian Anarchism ( www.thecommoner.org.uk )

Why is a theory of Asian anarchism necessary? The reasons that I believe it is important to create a theory of Asian anarchism can be boiled down to the following points....

Unsolvable Tension: State and Capital Against Communal Autonomy in Oaxaca ( itsgoingdown.org )

After Nazi attack, Swedish anarchist publisher says he will not be silenced ( freedomnews.org.uk )

Our Affinity Is Our Manifesto: Interview with Mexico City-Based Feminist-Anarchist Affinity Group ( itsgoingdown.org )

Mass Protests and the Danger of Social Media ( theluddite.org )

Crossposted because I think it's an interesting take, but I don't fully agree with the part about protests having no quantifiable goal....

Scrappy Capy Distro just released a new anarchist fiction zine called Harbour (one of my stories is in it) ( en.scrappycapydistro.info )

Scrappy Capy Distro has released the first issue of Harbour, an anarchist literary journal. It has 7 pieces from 6 authors, poets, and artists. You can download it for free online, or get it on paper if you happen to live in Berlin and know the anarchist scene there....

The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism ( theanarchistlibrary.org )

Leftwing activism of recent decades exhibits an anarchist turn evident in quantitative indicators like mentions of anarchists in news reports and by activists adopting anarchist modes of organization, tactics, and social goals-whether or not they claim that label. The authors of this Element argue that the very crises that...

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat ( theintercept.com )

I wasn't sure where to post this specifically. But I believe this history lesson to be of some value presently....

A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide | Institute for Social Ecology ( social-ecology.org )

For the ISE blog: Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel's radical right's ascension to power. "Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation of the...

Memories of Aaron Bushnell ( crimethinc.com )

On February 25, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Hostile critics have attempted to shrug off Aaron’s action as the consequence of mental illness. On the contrary, Aaron’s choice was a political...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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