Quote:
Originally Posted by robayon
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Reiwa does not speak for me. Reiwa is just mad that I used to use the PKK flag as an avatar and that I like the IWW too. I have never even met a member of the PKK. The US Dept of State's designation of terrorist organizations is meaningless.
I'm more familiar with Bookchin than Ocalan. I don't know what you were reading that you were not understanding, but I read The Ecology of Freedom a long time ago and do suggest it. It covers his entire philosophy pretty well. I've seen this referred to as Communalism, Democratic Confederalism (via the PKK, or Apoism as they might call it), Libertarian Socialism, Anarcho-Communism, Green Anarchism, blah blah blah endless names for everything, I don't like getting tripped up too much over names for nebulous and malleable concepts like political/economic systems
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/b...-eco-anarchist
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/21042016
I do not claim perfection in any of this or anything at all in general, just that it's an interesting synthesis of a lot of the -isms with an actual real-life working example to look at and possibly learn from. It would not be easy to graft on anything like this within America, but nothing worth doing is easy |
Thank you. These links made a lot more sense. Ill put ecology of freedom on my book list. I already have a lot of preconceived notions as I firmly believe the constitutional republic in its current western iteration is the peak and limit of how humanity can organize itself. Nothing was better before it, nothing will be better after it.
some basic truths that I view all of humanity through.
*Humans organize themselves in hierarchical manners. They will do it consciously or un-consciously.
*Humans make choices that will make them happy.
*The individual will always take prominence over the collective.
*Judeo-christian values temper the individual to better the collective.
*Tryanny and Oppression will always exist.
Any form of governance with the extreme diversity of the united states that ignores one of the above is doomed to fail.