Association: Communalist Social Ecology “L'Adventice”
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…
Murray Bookchin: for an eco-analysis of contemporary societies Murray Bookchin or the communocene objective. Social ecology and planetary liberation Pierre Sauvêtre 2024 Editions de l’Atelier 320 pages Pierre Sauvêtre, author of a book on the thought of Murray Bookchin, discusses…
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…
This is a term whose usage has undergone, and continues to undergo, surprising fluctuations and shifts in interpretation. Derived from the old Latin radicalis, its original meaning is nevertheless quite clear, as it simply refers to that which lies at…
On consenting to the crushing of Gaza While avoiding getting carried away by anger which, in these circumstances, would nevertheless be perfectly legitimate, this book by Didier Fassin makes its mark. Based on irrefutable facts and testimonies whose veracity is…
Twelfth part: Fragments Fragments of a letter written by Subcommander Insurgent Moises sent, a few months ago, to a geography distant in space but close in thought: “Sixth Zapatista Commission. Mexico. April 2023 (…) Because then it would be something…
Given the repeated disasters that fill our informed-misinformed daily news, it is impossible, even if one is distracted, not to notice that capitalism in its current globalized neoliberal stage, and the states that serve it, are now engaged in a…
The fact that only a minority of the population is interested in politics, that is to say in how society as a whole can be organized, in how a certain harmony of living together on this earth could be achieved,…
Revolution is therefore not only necessary because it is the only way to overthrow the ruling class, it is also necessary because only a revolution will allow the class that overthrows the other to sweep away all the rottenness of…
You can’t fight capitalism with ideology, because capitalism is precisely the ideology realized by market liberalism, which, through Political Economy, has amalgamated all ideologies. In a way, capitalism is the triumph of ideology. This is what we’re witnessing with what…
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian theorist and father of social ecology, is well known for his work on the interconnections between ecology and social struggle. In “The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years (1868-1936)”, published in 2001 by AK press editor, he…
The workshop’s ABC is designed as a kind of glossary for the field of Social Ecology. Its aim is to take a critical, yet as constructive a look as possible at the factors determining the times in which we live,…
It’s certainly an unfortunate time to be living in, when the very notion of consciousness appears to be completely foreign to many people, revealing itself to be the very reflection of their dispossession, their absence from the world. Awareness is,…
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…
