[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Then I'm sure you're also familiar with the ransacking of Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in 1933, where some of the first treatment plans for trans people were developed. It was a place where gay people and trans people were accepted and treated with respect by medical personnel.

That famous picture of the book burnings? Those were patient records and the research archives of the institute. So no, it did not just start with gay people, and trans people's persecution by nazis was relevant to bring up because it's one of the first kinds of persecution the nazis did. Dismissing that is ahistorical and dismissive of the history of oppression of trans people.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You're describing anarchism ;)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Definitely not the Netherlands, we've got a terrible case of American-style individualist brain-rot

Union membership rates in the Netherlands are like 10% only. Ever since the end of 'Pillarisation' we've been mostly individualist. The only real exceptions are religious communities and local sports clubs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation

We'll need a massive cultural change first to make people care about their fellow citizens again. We're too alienated.

I think Denmark has a much better chance, because their society favours collectivism a lot more. But then again Danish society has its own issues of course

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you're looking for theory, The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin is where it's at

Any sci fi novel by Ursula K. le Guin will have solarpunk elements, especially The Dispossessed

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The protesters will block this same stretch of road every single day from now until fossil fuel subsidies are ended. Every day, for as long as necessary

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's Danish for 'kiss'

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not only representative politics. We need to focus on grassroots initiatives as well.

Both is good

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm amazed to see an article written by a mainstream news outlet that is well-informed about Anarchism!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You're also supposing that this climate crisis that the governments are currently inflicting on their people is not violence. And that the police beating protesters is not violence.

It is violence, and we should be able to defend ourselves.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Within 15 minutes' biking distance:

A gym

A dedicated 'third place' - like a community center or something else dedicated to socializing outside work and the home.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The title was edited then, it didn't say it before.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is AI art. Please disclose that

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I have recently read Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which is a wonderful look into a Solarpunk world. However, an important critique that the book emphasizes is that this new Solarpunk society (or, well, an Anarchist society really) has produced a 'tyranny of bureaucracy' and a number of social pressures that stifle individual ambition and that punish those that are different from the norm.

Would you agree that Le Guin's critique can be useful for the solarpunk movement?

I have attached an analysis of the novel as well.

In the novel, the two most prominent slices of reality that require complementary interpretations are Shevek’s General Temporal Theory and his vision of anarchism on Anarres. Just as he sees Sequency and Simultaneity as complementary, so he sees individual freedom and social responsibility as the complementary manifestations of anarchy. Moreover, Shevek is able to comprehend anarchy in a complementary way only because his view is based on the theory of time that he has developed.

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Lyrata

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