Anarcho-capitalism, radical neo-liberalism, unfettered capitalism, call it what you want, in the end it’s basically a breeding ground for monarchism. When you give money all the power in the world you just replace kings with billionaires, unelected rulers backed by private armies.
banan67
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A question in this article that I feel is important. "Has social ecology been eclipsed in ecological anarchism? Should it be revived?"
Partially, yes and absolutely yes. In my honest opinion, it's a great shame that some other anarchistic eco-currents (like anarcho-primitivism, rewilding, and now solarpunk-ish movements) have sometimes pushed Bookchin aside, finding social ecology too rationalist. Its insight, that we need communal, decentralized, directly democratic solutions to ecological collapse, is more relevant than ever. Maybe today it needs to be expanded. Maybe we make it more pluralistic, more attuned to Indigenous knowledges, more experimental. But its core spirit absolutely deserves revival.
Yea, I skimmed through the comments. Yikes. Really just proves my point that they take these criticisms like a shot to the chest.
No yea, you're obviously right. We can't just take forager social praxis and use it in our society, but we can absolutely learn from them. You have to understand that social pressure goes a lot further than just ostracizing an individual. Humans need eachother, more often than not. We feed eachother, fix eachothers plumbing, teach each-others children how to garden, how to fix stuff. Let's say there is a group of individuals causing destruction (using drones). Well we've acknowledged they're doing terrible shit, so we stop helping them and we make it clear to the rest of the community what these people are doing. In extreme cases we'd have to deal with the situation violently, but it's equally as important to recognize that when we're talking about bad actors in general, we're talking about bad actors in all of its spectrum. From pickpockets, to murders. And I think for each case there is a solution.