1991 Introduction for the Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin:

"Perhaps the most compelling real fact that radicals in our era have not adequately faced is the fact that capitalism today has become a society, not only an economy. The rivalries, the grow-or-die mentality, and the chaos of the marketplace have percolated from the realms of commerce and industry, which were once largely confined to economic lite, into the daily life of familial, personal, sexual, religious, and community relationships. This invasion is reflected by the often unadorned egotism, consumerism, careerism, mutual suspicion, and highly transitory forms of human intercourse, so widespread today. In the decades that followed the end of the Second World War, we have seen a development that has not only produced the anomie of the "lonely crowd;" ...

#anarchism #SocialEcology #Capitalism

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Spanish Robin Hood Enric Duran on Capitalism and “Integral Revolution”
by Michel Bauwens

ARTICLE DATE: March 24, 2014

https://www.shareable.net/spanish-robin-hood-enric-duran-on-capitalism-and-integral-revolution/

#CivilDisobedience #GlobalCommons #FairCoin #SocialCoop #SocialCoopGovernance #GlobalEconomics #IntegralRevolution. #Degrowth #SolidarityEconomics #Catalan #CatalanIntegralCooperative #Cooperative #IntegralEconomics. #GrassrootsFinance #EnricDuran #Anticapitalism #GlobalFinance #Activism #EconomicOpportunity #PostCapitalism #FinancialDisobedience #Capitalism #Cryptocurrency #GlobalSouth #NonHierarchicalSociety #FairCredit #FairFunds #FairMarket #FairCoop #Cryptocurrencies #Local #Localization #Relocalization #Communalism #Municipalism #SocialEcology

From "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" - Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin)

"If the meshing of ecological and anarchist principles is ever achieved in practice, social life would yield a sensitive development of human and natural diversity, falling together into a well-balanced, harmonious unity. Ranging from community through region to entire continents, we would see a colorful differentiation of human groups and ecosystems, each developing its unique potentialities and exposing members of the community to a wide spectrum of economic, cultural, and behavioral stimuli. Falling within our purview would be an exciting, often dramatic, variety of communal forms — here marked by architectural and industrial adaptations to semiarid biomes, there to grasslands, elsewhere by adaptation to forested areas...

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#Anarchism #SocialEcology #MurrayBookchin #DirectDemocracy #Communalism #Bookchin #Democracy #Politics

Another #new #article on my #substack, about #AI #development for #surveillance, #disinformation, and #SocialControl (also deconstructing the #PaxJudaica #ConspiracyTheory):

https://open.substack.com/pub/diseco/p/the-digital-prison-ai-surveillance

#USA #Israel #MIC #tech #biometrics #drones #blog #data #privacy #imperialism #SocialEcology #DisabilityJustice

One nice thing about solar power and batteries is that it requires both global cooperation to work, but also protects localities from short term conflicts.

You need global cooperation because building the batteries and solar cells takes a lot of different materials mined from different places processed in specialized ways.

You can withstand short term conflicts because you don't need constant supplies, the batteries and solar cells mostly just run.

#solarpunk #greenenergy #socialecology

Us leftie technologists have been talking about decentralization for a very long time. But it's obvious from a lot of experiments in decentralization that decentralization requires coordination, otherwise it turns into a nightmare of libertarian sovereign citizen.

See Lebanon's waste management problem across its 1000+ municipalities, for a glowing example of how decentralization without coordination fails miserably.

Of course, countless thinkers from Abdullah Öcalan to Murray Bookchin to Stafford Beer talked about levels of coordination among decentralized actors, giving it various names.

But could we make sure that every time we talk about decentralization, we always include coordination?

Could coordinated decentralization become our new term for decentralization?

#Ocalan #Bookchin #cybernetics #SocialEcology