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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.
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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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.
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~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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You sound similar to me. For me, every day was "Monday." Even when I had jobs filled with work I enjoyed and people I liked, I never once felt that it was preferable to any of the dozen or so other things I'd like to be doing. The best jobs, regardless of the actual work and people, were those located in a place I wanted to live and with the combination of pay and hours that let me pursue my own interests.
I was a computer programmer (something I always did as a hobby) working for an amazing company with amazing people (before it got sold to investor types). I thought that was a great job.
But it was the salt mines compared to moving to the lakeshore and taking a job looking after a small village where the work itself was some of worst I'd ever done and the people were no great shakes either.
The commute was pretty much traffic free past fields and trees. Get home, stroll down to the shore and spend 20 minutes or so fishing for supper, successfully often enough. Enough time, money, and mental energy to devote to learning new things through online classes. Building, outfitting, and using a shop. Snowshoeing or canoeing practically on our doorstep instead of having to pack up and drive somewhere.