“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
A text by Nicolas Casaux, recently published in *Le Partage*, revisits the work of Murray Bookchin to denounce a technological messianism and what he calls the “everyday racism” of the ideology of Progress. We will not respond to this article…
Statement by the SEC Workshop on the Occasion of the International Tribute to Murray Bookchin Friends, companions, We speak tonight on behalf of the « Atelier d’Écologie Sociale et Communalisme », a French-language editorial collective formed recently, but steadfast in…
July 30 will mark the 20th anniversary of Murray Bookchin’s death. He was known as a pioneer of the environmental movement, a political theorist, and a visionary of a future society based on a confederation of free communes—one that rejects…
Series — Social Ecology Today: Dialogues Is Moving Away from Growth Enough? “Grow or die”: that is the law governing every enterprise in a market society.1 — Murray Bookchin, 1989 Introduction — From Roots to Dialogues The first five texts…
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…
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…
Towards a social ecology of techniques Communotechny refers to the ability of human communities to design, manufacture, and use techniques for the common good. It is not simply a portmanteau word, but an attempt to restore meaning to technique as…
Luis Garduas and Vicente Guedero May 23, 2025 Transition (RAE): action and effect of passing from one state or mode of being to another. “Energy transition” is a term from nuclear physics, where it describes the passage of an electron…
About Pierre Sauvêtre’s book Murray Bookchin ou l’objectif communocène (Murray Bookchin or the Communocene Objective) (Éditions de l’Atelier, 2024) and his participation in the program “De la Commune au communalisme, histoire d’un projet politique” (From the Commune to Communalism: History…
We reproduce here an article by Paul Boino who deciphers the ideas of Murray Bookchin and analyzes them in the light of libertarian communist ideas. An article published in 2001 on the website (the link is no longer available)…
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…
