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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- LibriVox Public domain book collection where you can find audiobooks from old communist, socialist, and anarchist authors.
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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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Am anarchist and never voted. I see voting as a very ineffective action at best.
With that being said, I don't vote because I have better shit to do. Not out of some principle or belief that I'm doing something effective by not voting.
I'm against taking part in a community based around refusal to vote, because the point of not voting should be passive. It should be "I'm already doing a lot of other more important shit to fight the State so why bother?" And not "I don't vote therefore I am having an impact".
Just like voting is damn near useless, organizing and campaigning around not voting is also pretty meh.
Edit: OP isn't doing a false flag. That's a pretty common view among anarchists. Especially offline.
I personally think voting is worth doing, particularly because it’s one of the few controls on society that most people have easy access to and doesn’t need to compete with other important tasks. I find for me that it is also good reminder to learn about and pay attention to the local political scene and issues which can be often forgotten in the deluge of national political news.
That said, I largely agree that other actions can have a much bigger impact. But if voting is said to be a waste of time, surely all of this time spent arguing about the topic is also wasted. Even though I didn’t totally agree, I think the pinned post is a good take: vote (or not) as you feel, but let’s focus on the actions that actually matter which I think we mostly all agree on. Right now that is primarily educating and organizing with our communities.