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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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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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Funny how often I've seen the word "accelerationist" thrown around lately, and generally at pretty much anyone who calls for fighting back against the deliberate wholesale destruction of American democracy and liberty.
Luigi shot a CEO.
The only change is that now the CEOs have better security.
It's progress if you're a security goon who needs a paycheck, but it doesn't change the status quo.
To me, an accelerationist is anyone who goes for the big, spalshy gesture that does nothing.
Which do you think is really going to scare Musk more; a dozen people getting shot, or 50 million new voters registered in the next six months?
A dozen people getting shot.
Really.
50 million new voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they're not going to be. Our future is sham elections with predetermined outcomes.
ETA: that's not to say that I think shooting people is the solution - it's not. But voting sure as hell isn't going to be either.
Let me explain.
Luigi got arrested. He makes a nice symbol. The next shooter is going to be killed by the police. And the one after that and the one after that. Look at the Black Panthers and how well they survived.
50 million voters means that there are 50 million new people engaged. 50 million people who are going to be working at the elections and asking questions.
Musk is nowhere near as strong as the KGB was before the USSR fell.
A dozen shooters is something that looks fine in a movie; 50 million is what changes the history books.
Again, those 50 million voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they will not be.
Those days are gone. With Musk and his minions running roughshod over the federal computer systems, there will never be another legitimate federal level election in the US.
What part about the fall of the USSR didn't you understand?
The Soviets had far more power than Musk has now, they'd held it longer, and they were far more ruthless. They fell.
The only part I don't understand is how you can apparently believe that the USSR going through something that sort of equates with a Chapter 11 reorganization, divesting itself of most of its subsidiaries and rebranding itself as "Russia" is in any way relevant.