A community about anarchy. anarchism, social ecology, and communalism for SLRPNK! Solarpunk anarchists unite!
Feel free to ask questions here. We aspire to make this space a safe space. SLRPNK.net's basic rules apply here, but generally don't be a dick and don't be an authoritarian.
Anarchism is a social and political theory and practice that works for a free society without domination and hierarchy.
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.
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
This is the second time, I've denazified a dangerous link to a known fash website
At first I thought it was a mistake, but twice, is a trend. This is the best time to practice anti authoritarian interlacing. It won't occur overnight, so take your time. But be extremely aware they want you dead, and cornered.
It's nice that you/we have reclaimed Lemmy, but this was possible because its structure is anarchist. Substack is centralized closed-source software operated by a for-profit corporation in a nation with a fascist government. We have no leverage over them other than having the power to leave, so why not do that now rather than wait for them to get their hooks in us so they can be a tool of fascism? Or even just enshittify?
Those authors that left substack show that it is is possible. It's only career suicide if we, their audience, choose to be scabs and break the consumer strike. If they are the only authors we can link to, that alone would cause their careers a lot of good. (even in an anarchist context, a popular author can more easily get sufficient help to stay safe from oppressors and to flourish as a person).
Also note that while substack is platforming Nazis, it deplatformed covid antivaxers. They do not have a principled stance of libertarian free speech, they have just chosen to support Nazis.
So why set ourselves up to be hurt in a year or two when fascists come for it?
I also think the authors that have left Substack have done something admirable, and I agree we should boost their work to encourage more people to follow suit.
I notice you don't post. I encourage you to give it a try. Following the authors who have left Substack and posting their work in the appropriate communities would be a great introduction to sharing stories on the Fediverse.