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conseil wrote

[capitalist, unsafe search engine] [not anarchist]

bing lenin

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Magma5 wrote

To be fair, The term "Google" is often used as a shorter way of saying "Search online for." It's like an atheist saying "Oh my god."

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ziq wrote

There's so much that irritates me about that whole sentence "Google Murray Bookchin", what kind of anarchists a) uses Google, and b) gives a shit about Murray Bookchin?

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shanc wrote

Sheepishly admits she's watched every single one of his interviews on youtube

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ziq wrote

A real life communalist on raddle?

Any feedback on this piece I wrote before I submit it to theanarchistlibrary?

https://raddle.me/w/communalism_and_anarchy

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ziq wrote (edited )

Also, on a personal level, I'd rather you found a different term than 'Green Anarchist' for the final section. Green Anarchist is an umbrella term for many different schools of thought including Post-Scarcity Anarchism, so it's kind of exclusionary to use that term in your critique

Green anarchy has always meant 'anticiv anarchist' so I don't think it's exclusionary to use the term just because social ecologists have recently decided to appropriate it. It would be easier if you just used the term 'eco-anarchist' so people aren't confused by adherents of destructive industrial ideologies calling themselves 'green'. There are no green factories.

I don't think it's fair to both dismiss Communalism as authoritarian and complain about Bookchin dismissing anarcho-primitivism as authoritarian.

There's a clear history of Bookchin being attracted to authoritarianism - after all, he was a tankie for much of his life and provided ample fuel to future generations of tankies with his anti-anarchist "lifestylism" screeds that are now parroted verbatim on tankie forums. Anarcho-primitivism doesn't have that legacy. I also documented his descent back into something resembling authoritarian ideology with his own quotes, culminating with this:

The minority must have patience and allow a majority decision to be put into practice... Municipal minorities [must] defer to the majority wishes of participating communities.

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shanc wrote

A real life communalist

Not really. I just like his voice more than anything. I used to listen to him on long commutes. There's some gold in his later interviews - this was a person with half a century of activism behind them after all

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ziq wrote

So you ignore everything after he parted ways with anarchism to form communalism?

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ziq wrote

What engages you about "social ecology" / "post-scarcity anarchism"?

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ziq wrote (edited )

Mike Paradinas

planet-mu.com

Michael Paradinas, better known by his stage name μ-Ziq, is an English electronic musician from Wimbledon, London.

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n_n wrote

needs more jpeg

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