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Anarchism and Social Ecology

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Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.