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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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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 recommended this manual's section on workplace sabotage, and I had a user say that this would not work today, because apparently literally every single workplace is a panopticon that will detect even the tiniest amount of inefficiency and fire you for it, and apparently somehow even though every single worker in some unit was working as slow as possible it would not hurt efficiency, because magical surveillance technology.
Also according to them if you try this you will be PROSECUTED, and I guess you'll also be flogged, shot, hanged, quartered, burned at the stake, and then flogged again for good measure. And then you'll be fired.
Not sure if that person's just an idiot or actively trying to prevent people from trying simple sabotage.
There definitely is an argument here that most modern workplaces are truly dystopian panopticons where some of the methods laid out won't work nearly as well as they once did. And yes, some methods resulting in any amount of damage to equipment could very plausibly result in prosecution. But none of it is impossible and many methods will still work, at least with some cooperation.
There absolutely isn't an argument like that. Where the hell have you people been working if you think most workplaces are like that?
Edit: yes, some of the methods definitely wouldn't work because they're outdated, but not because every single workplace is like the NSA
Edit part deux – the return of the Edit: also, I think a lot of you folks are forgetting that not every job is an IT job
Seconding Quill here, if you haven't been living this your entire working career you're one of vanishingly few lucky exceptions to the rule. Yes, the factual reality is that most workplaces at medium size or larger employers are in fact actual panopticons. There are exceptions, there always are. But that's the reality on the ground in 2025.
Are y'all Americans? Because that definitely isn't the reality on the ground over here in Finland
First time I’ve ever seen someone finnish-centric dissonance themselves in threadiverse.
Who was it then you were focusing on your cited🧵?
I was there in that thread too, making fun of [complying] liberals.
What as a Finnish person are you capable of directly sabotaging?
I have no idea what you're trying to say here
Who were you talking about in the thread you linked then? Can't be klay1@lemmy.world or Rivalarrival, because simple sabotage was never praxied in Finland.