“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
What is Social Ecology?
There is much talk about the place of individualism in today’s society, generally lamenting its effects not only from a practical point of view but also in terms of the types of subjectivity it produces, which are profoundly distorted. At…
Of the next five chapters of “POWER TO DESTROY, POWER TO CREATE”, the first three chapters formed a concise and forceful text that served in 1969 as a “manifesto” for the New York group Ecology Action East, one of the…
with the Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin Review by Ernest London, January 27, 2020 Floréal M. Roméro presents Murray Bookchin’s work, his critical and political journey. He proposes to find answers in social ecology and libertarian municipalism, without reproducing the…
We are witnessing a very curious phenomenon in our late post-modernism: while we are constantly denouncing multiple forms of discrimination, whether based on sex, religion, color, age or appearance, our era tends to forget (or should we say, tries to…
We don’t know what bewilderment thinking certain groups and individuals seem to want to associate communalism with electoral participation on the occasion of municipal elections. Unsurprisingly, the same people don’t seem to mind giving their support, in the name of…
The life of Murray Bookchin In 2020, reading “Libertarian Municipalism – The Politics of Social Ecology”, written by Janet Biehl, introduced me to Murray Bookchin. Since then, the theses he developed throughout his life have been an integral part of…
What meaning can we give to this word outside the theoretical abstraction that today claims to define its framework and modalities? For it has become increasingly clear that neither elections, nor voting, nor political parties, and even less so state…
I germinate, I grow, I blossom, I bear fruit and I scatter my seeds despite the hostility of the surrounding environment! On May 11 and 12, 2024, the “Communalist Social Ecology Association, “L’Adventice”” was created in Cordes sur Ciel (Tarn-France),…
Male domination is both visible and invisible. It is a form of systemic violence that shapes gender social relationships from which no one can escape. But let us first note that the acquisition and persistence of this particular psychic structure…
To put it bluntly: now that it is clear that the “structural forces” are unlikely to produce something to our liking, all that remains is the prospect of imagining real alternatives. David Graeber This remark by D. Graeber sums up…
“Remaking Society – A New Ecological Politics” by Murray Bookchin, published in 1992 by AK Press, is a major essay in the field of political and ecological thought. This book proposes a radical and liberating vision of society, combining the…
