You're personifying many complicated things of abstract concepts that mesh and interact with each other in various ways. An unstopped parasitic mold might be a better metaphor.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
0 points (50.0% liked)
Anarchism and Social Ecology
3311 readers
78 users here now
!anarchism@slrpnk.net
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
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.
Libraries
Audiobooks
- General audiobooks
- LibriVox Public domain book collection where you can find audiobooks from old communist, socialist, and anarchist authors.
- Anarchist audiobooks
- Socialist Audiobooks
- Social Ecology Audiobooks
Quotes
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
Network
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
You’re personifying many complicated things of abstract concepts that mesh and interact with each other in various ways.
Thank you :)
An unstopped parasitic mold might be a better metaphor.
I assume you are thinking about the machine framing. Perhaps, but I can't decide whether I agree or disagree. On the other hand, I think the machine is a very good analogy for the structure of might. As something unfeeling, uncaring, mechanical, focused on efficiency rather than meaning.
If it is unclear, this is the kind of image I'm talking about when I say the motherly machine.
Tbh the only thing I got from this text was sexism, not an image
Honestly, I don't see why you would think that. Is it because a mother and father are gendered? Then do you think the term "mother earth" is also sexist?
If the term "mother earth" is sexist or not is something that depends on the context. Well, imo.
The characteristics you project to motherhood and fatherhood are totally stereotypical.
To me it seems obvious you haven't spent any time on this topic and I assume that since you like writing, most probably you like reading? If that's the case, I invite you to use your favorite search engine and start researching this topic. I really hope you'll enjoy the findings!
Thank you for elaborating.
If the term “mother earth” is sexist or not is something that depends on the context. Well, imo.
The only reason we say "mother Earth" is so that we can apply the symbolic meaning of motherhood upon Earth. Otherwise we might as well say "planet Earth" and cut the unwanted associations.
The characteristics you project to motherhood and fatherhood are totally stereotypical.
I'm simply using daoism and yinyang. Yin representing the feminine energy and yang representing the masculine energy. I'm using mother and father as images of forwarding the yin and yang upon the machine. By doing so, we get a wholistic insight into the nature of the machine, why the machine is attractive and how the machine is destructive.
So the question is then; Do you think that yinyang is sexist, or that I'm using yinyang in a sexist manner?
To me it seems obvious you haven’t spent any time on this topic and I assume that since you like writing, most probably you like reading? If that’s the case, I invite you to use your favorite search engine and start researching this topic. I really hope you’ll enjoy the findings!
If you want to challenge me on any statement or positions, go ahead. If you have any questions for me, I'll answer them. If you want me to look into an article and give you my impressions go ahead and share. But simply "do research", "ask AI" makes me depressed because I'm here to have conversations. If it is dumb or smart conversations. I believe that we find the right way when we talk with each other instead of outsourcing conversations to the machine.
You say you want a conversation with me but you don't even bother taking into account my suggestion which was actually very simple:
do a search of the word "sexism" and read at least something about it.
Instead, you chose to write this comment. Your approach doesn't make me want to give you any more of my time at this point. So bye bye for now
Neither of us are getting anything out of this, so let's shake hand on that at least.
The machine eats her young. Get bent, OP.
Are you insinuating that I like the machine? wtf man
It's sure how your post read to me.
Could you elaborate?