“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
What is Social Ecology?
In this 1985 lecture, Murray Bookchin offers an essential reflection on the political and social structures that shape our understanding of freedom. He seeks to demonstrate that freedom cannot be limited to an individual or abstract conception, but must be…
The question seems to me to be, why has it become so difficult to debate? It’s obvious that within any group, and given the complexity of the realities we face, there are bound to be various points of divergence, or…
“Where property is sufficiently protected, it would be easier to live without money than without poor people, because otherwise who would do the work.” “The vast majority must remain both ignorant and poor.” An early champion of market liberalism, Bernard…
At the current stage of disintegration of the structure of society as a whole and worldwide, and even though there seems to be no lasting refuge from this debacle, the defensive reflex for many seems to be to “stop talking…
Today, the term “fascist” is being used in all sorts of confusing ways. Far right extremists now call their opponents “fascists”. Tendencies claiming to be anarchists point to other anarchist tendencies as suspects of fascist leanings. In short, it’s all…
The notion of hospitality (Greek philoxenia) has been at the heart of human history and civilization for millennia. In a way, we might even say that it is what gave birth and substance to this history, enabling the expansion of…
The history we’re really interested in is of course not “taught” or “taught falsely”, and therefore only appears marginally. It is, so to speak, a question of point of view; this point of view is generally that of domination, unfolding…
What can we say now about Equality, a concept increasingly neglected and discarded not only by the representatives of domination, but by the majority who now prefer not to think about it. Thinking about equality means confronting a host of…
Many of the problems associated with technology are being glossed over. The legacy of capitalism, should we ever manage to get rid of it, will be a heavy one in any case. How, for example, can we put an end…
If we look no further than France’s social reality, we can see that nothing is going right. But we also see that revolts follow one another in a sectorized fashion, remaining virtually unconnected. This is where we see just how…
“What matters for understanding the contemporary moment is the disintegration of meanings and realities, not as a direct consequence of the stranglehold of established forces on reality, but on the contrary as a central indicator of their loss of control,…
