Association: Communalist Social Ecology “L'Adventice”
Many of the most conscious individuals, and in a way the most lucid, now tend to despair about the future of humanity and the possibility of a favorable outcome for the establishment of a truly humane society. It must be…
One of the main resources of capitalism and its system of domination, one that has enabled it to endure alongside its permanent repressive logic throughout different eras and against the multiple forms of resistance it has provoked, is undoubtedly its…
The electric car, which is presented to us in France as an essential ecological advance, depends entirely on the massive extraction of minerals for the manufacture of its batteries, with particularly destructive effects where this takes place. What characterizes this…
The confusion between human activity and work is intrinsic to capitalist ideology, and it is essential to this ideology to maintain this confusion, which is reflected in the constant sacralization of the notion of work, attempting to make us forget…
It is certainly necessary to analyze in depth how capitalism works, in relation to its history, a necessity that was already largely put into practice by Marx in his time. And it cannot be denied that many authors of great…
Throughout the millennia of human history, there have been a multitude of cultures with their own customs and traditions, giving life on Earth its extraordinary palette of colors, encounters, and potential adventures. The world offered a true diversity of possibilities,…
The field of language is a crucial battleground in the war between us and the capitalist system of domination. Through its massive control of the media, through the specific forms given to what we still call “education,” and through the…
If we ask ourselves what psychologically enables certain individuals to shamelessly exercise abusive power over everything around them, we almost always encounter established forms of cynicism that serve as a smokescreen for those individuals. Whether it is the power of…
Voting does not express democracy. On the contrary, it is an expression of its failure, of its inability to establish a common ground where everyone can find their place. Not to mention the ease with which established oligarchies, the “establishment,”…
What we are trying to implement is a combative social ecology that seeks to reveal in a sensitive and tangible way the many aberrations and misguided practices that characterize the current form of society, which has been gradually established by…
Economic development, with its apparently autonomous laws, its abstract purpose, its misunderstood contradictions, its unpredictable effects, was experienced by men, since it constituted a specific world, as a foreign destiny, alternately distributing prosperity and misery to them, and more often…
If there is a shift in the present era, it is not occurring where those hoping for a radical change in the type of society were expecting, but rather at the expense of a whole section of those who were…
of Lewis Mumford What is the city? How did it begin? What have been the phases of its development? Is it destined to disappear, or will our planet turn into a huge urban hive, which would be, for individualized cities,…
African communalism past and present: inhabitants’ assemblies and decision-making by consensus A tradition that is still relevant today! Although the State has existed in Africa for a long time (ancient Egypt – unification of the Nile valley around 3500 BC,…
“The Dialectic of the Concrete” by Karel Kosik Here we present fairly extensive extracts from the work of the Czech philosopher and critical thinker Karel Kosik (1926-2003). It is not known for what deleterious reasons this very important work disappeared…
In view of the extraordinary confusion of the times and in order not to contribute to it, the need for a permanent search for coherence in our discourse, our practices and our ways of living has never been greater. There…
Recreating and reinventing the space and conditions for dialogue is, quite simply, a priority for Social Ecology. In the society of the spectacle, which is the rotten fruit of the political economy, the confrontation of ideas is quickly transformed…
