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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I have a few places where I can find joy in my life.
From nature, I find happiness from the trails I walk to the garden of veggies and plants that I grow.
For creativity, I have been learning some coding and building operating systems for my laptop and raspberry pi home server.
Socially, I got really lucky last year and met someone who has been amazing to me. She's my mycelium and through her I've been meeting all these new interesting people who I've been able to relate and connect with. People who have unique and very open personalities that aren't solely based on work or religion.
Growing vegetables was on my mind for quite some time, but it would take time until i have enough money for a place with room for that.
I'm right now going through university studying software engineering, I'd love it if you could share some sources for systems programming, i also got another old laptop recently and looking to experiment on it.
Happy to hear you found someone, hope you two find plenty of happiness together :)
I'm living at home now with my aging parents so I'm fortunate enough to use some of the backyard for growing veggies and plants.
I've mostly been "building" an operating system by using Alpine Linux. It's a super minimal operations system that's commonly used for containers like Docker. Once installed, you start everything from a TTY screen. There is support for graphical desktop environments but even then you need to add extra parts to it. Everything from file systems to USB connectivity and so on.
It's been a good starting point for me into understanding how Operating Systems work without taking any formal education. Alpine is very modular which means you can create a system specific to your needs if you wish. I think it's great for a web facing server since you can create a system that has less surface area to attack. One step out of many when it comes to internet safety.
I did create a program for myself based on POSIX scripting standards for file transfers using Rsync which I am quite proud of creating. It should in theory work on a wide range of operating systems that fall under unix, including apple products or even windows if you are using the linux sub system with Rsync installed.
You can see it here
Thank you. There is so much love and understanding between us and the people in her friend group and I appreciate all of them so much. I'm happy to have met all of them.