“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
What is Social Ecology?
“Caminando preguntamos.” — EZLN Two years ago—on May 11 and 12, 2024—we founded “L’Adventice,” a free association dedicated to Communalist Social Ecology. We chose our name with care: inspired by the Canadian fleabane—Erigeron canadensis—that herbaceous plant which industrial agriculture classifies…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots Is Hierarchy Natural? The Myth of Natural Domination Put to the Test “Hierarchy and domination are not natural givens of social life; they are the product of a long historical development. ” — Murray…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots An Indispensable Critical Legacy Social ecology is situated within a theoretical landscape in which Marxism occupies a central place. While not reducible to it, social ecology draws on certain essential tools from Marxism to…
Anarchism: How to establish Freedom? Social ecology is often presented as a form of ecological anarchism. This characterization is not incorrect—but it remains insufficient for understanding what this approach truly seeks to articulate. For while social ecology clearly belongs to…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots About this series The series ‘Social Ecology Today’ explores and clarifies the thinking and practices of social ecology, showing how this approach connects ecological crises to the social and political structures that produce them,…
Solidarity contribution — pooling As ecological, social, and democratic crises deepen, one question remains central: how can we build emancipatory forms of organization without repeating the logic we contest? This requirement for consistency between means and ends is not simply…
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…
