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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where are you working that your computer isn't overloaded with snitchware?
I've never, ever had a work computer with snitchware, and I've worked in multinational gaming companies.
I think this might be a USA vs Europe thing, because seriously this "every workplace is a panopticon" just isn't a thing at least in Finland.
Also, not every workplace is something where you deal with computers etc. Manufacturing and so on still exist.
Could be a US vs Europe thing, maybe a specific to Finland or the Scandinavia thing, but I generally doubt it and think you're naïve to the experience of most people's jobs. Britain is quite famously even more omni-surveilled than the US.
I work management in retail, cameras are literally everywhere (and being at least occasionally watched) that there could ever be a legal liability in any form (e.g. a worker or customer doing absolutely anything whatsoever), which is basically everywhere. Manufacturing is the same, cameras are everywhere. On paper it's mainly for the liability reasons but surveillance is a nice bonus (or the real reason).
My mom worked in corporate telecommunications until last year when she retired, and her job frequently involved discussions about how the networks her company was installing enabled closer employee surveillance. Her stories from work are part of why I care to comment about this, it's almost laughable to me to see someone thinking this isn't common. It's standard. It's everywhere. The world became a panopticon a decade ago and you're running late to the realization.
Or maybe you're just generalising your experiences and assuming that eg. the laws regarding what employers can do with cameras are the same everywhere?
aint no way you're this dense. Just because your country isn't surveillancing the planet, doesn't meant the big 14 haven't.