I'm about 50 pages into The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin, and I think it's fantastic so far.

As my first foray into Bookchin, he's got me hooked.

#Bookchin #Books #SocialEcology #Anarchism #Socialism
#Environmental #Libertarianism

Resisting Turkish Imperialism in #Rojava w/ Debbie Bookchin & Meghan Bodette

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/resisting-turkish-imperialism-in-rojava-ft-105349514/
#ItCouldHappenHere #CoolZoneMedia #syria #kurdistan #kurds #turkey #bookchin

"Clearly we should not want a blueprint that is so overly detailed that it suffocates the differentiation, experimentation, participatory action, plurality, and adaptation that is crucial to what a good society and roads towards it consists of; but we should want visions of a good society that can be fleshed out and applied to specific contexts– adapting to relevant variables while retaining specific universal features. Such broader visions of a good society should neither be too detailed nor too skeletal. Without a vision of a good society, and a conception of what the good consists of, how do we know what we should be doing, where we should be going towards, and how to get there? And when it comes to the question of how to get “there” (to a good society) and what “there” entails, it would do us well to think about how a libertarian communist economy could and should function. It is necessary but not sufficient to abolish hierarchical society; we additionally need to develop new ways to interface politically and economically to provide for the needs of all and to enable people to make decisions about what affects them and what they want to do on various scales. It is not enough for people to have knowledge of unfreedom and injustice in this world and a fiery passion to abolish such conditions and the will to act upon the above; People will and should inquire about what a good alternative political economy to the status quo is and how it would function– and it is necessary for revolutionaries to have some good answers to such questions, good goals, and good ways to get there. A libertarian communist revolution will not happen without sufficient prefiguration of new ways of relating, making decisions, forming institutions to provide for the needs and desires of people– as well as enough general education among people about how to do the above. Although a revolutionary development must be goal oriented, it ought to make good processes some of such goals to be developed– as well as make good ends developed within good processes. This is both because the processes themselves have ethical value and are not merely instrumental and because on a strategic level forms of freedom are best developed through such prefiguration as the ends determine the means we ought to use."

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-conquest-of-sandwiches/

#anarchism #communism #anarchy #kropotkin #bookchin #communalism #assemblies #commune #socialism #utopia

The communal revolutions and movements we do see (both pre-1940s and post 1940s) that are ethical and effective utilize features that approximately correspond to Bookchin’s non-electoral politics rather than his niche and eclectic approach to local elections.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/a-friendly-critique-of-bookchins-politics/

#anarchism #anarchy #communism #socialism #assemblies #bookchin #anarchocommunism #libertariansocialism #commons #revolution #mutualaid #directaction #democracy #communalism #municipalism

Murray #Bookchin on the New Left. Very insightful stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwaFifg7cU

#introduction
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Murray #Bookchin had was a radical ecologist, political thinker, and philosopher who had a pretty significant effect on my outlook. We don't idolize him or anyone; but i think his overall analysis of the ecological-social crisis and his vision of a society based on #usufruct #complementarity and the #irreducibleminimum is very worth reading.

his writing can be dense, so consider Janet Biehl's contribution: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-janet-biehl-the-murray-bookchin-reader

#socialecology #communalism #ecology #municipalism

:graeber: : too. #bookchin #graeber

#rojava #kurdistan #öcalan #Nordsyrien
Alan Pire ist ein kurdischer Politikwissenschaftler aus Qamischli (Nordsyrien). Er nahm an zahlreichen Podiumsdiskussionen teil, veröffentlichte Texte über die Lage der Kurden in Syrien und arbeitet am Center for Teaching and Learning in Wien.

Timeline:
1:56 - #Qamischli (#Rojava)
4:05 - Massenproteste in Syrien 2011 gegen Assad
8:44 - Multiethnischer demokratischer Konföderalismus
11:45 - Abdullah #Öcalan und Murray #Bookchin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZBtwlYodsM

"Liberalna ekologia nie jest w stanie pojąć, że społeczeństwo kapitalistyczne oparte na konkurencji i nieustannym wzroście musi w końcu pochłonąć świat natury, tak jak nowotwór musi w końcu pochłonąć żywiciela. Osobiste intencje, dobre czy złe, mają niewiele wspólnego z tym procesem" Murray
Bookchin

#bookchin #kapitalizm #ekologia

Viele tolle Gespräche am heutigen 1. Mai, danke an alle, die vorbeigekommen sind! #Bookchin #SozialeÖkologie

Μάρεϊ Μπούκτσιν: Ένας φιλοσοφικός νατουραλισμός

Τι είναι η φύση; Ποια είναι η θέση της ανθρωπότητας στη φύση; Και ποια είναι η σχέση της κοινωνίας με τον φυσικό κόσμο;

https://adespotos.org/2018/09/24/murray-bookchin-dialectical-philosophical-naturalism/

#bookchin #socialecology #naturalism

#antireport

I am looking for a physical copy of Social Ecology and Communalism. If you have a copy that you want to sale or know where I can get one, please let me know. #bookchin