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Politics
Social Ecology and Communalism
Communalism is a system of government in which virtually autonomous local communities are brought together in a confederation. Social Ecology is its recognition of the often-overlooked fact that nearly all our present ecological problems arise from deep-seated social problems.
- Social Ecology and Communalism - Murray Bookchin
- Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future - Murray Bookchin
- The Ecology of Freedom - Murray Bookchin (Audiobook)
- Communalism: A Liberatory Alternative - Marcus & Stephanie Amargi (Audiobook)
- Toward a Communalist Approach - Murray Bookchin
Dialectical Naturalism
Dialectical naturalism is the philosophical underpinning of social ecology. Through dialectical naturalism we reason the evolutionary becoming of the biological world or “first nature”, the emergence of the realm of culture or “second nature”, and the potentiality for “free nature”—a rational and ecological society.
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism - Murray Bookchin
- The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature - William Cronon
- Institute for Social Ecology Class - 1988 (YouTube) - Murray Bookchin
- Second Nature Lecture - 1996 (YouTube) - Murray Bookchin
The History of Hierarchy
From dialectical analysis we can deduce a history of hierarchy, which traces the emergence of hierarchy from the rise of government by elders, the emergence of patriarchy, shamanistic guilds, warrior groups, chiefdoms, and eventually the state.
- The Murray Bookchin Reader - Murray Bookchin & Janet Biehl (Audiobook)
- Cities Against Centralization - Greg Bryant
- Sociobiology or Social Ecology - Murray Bookchin
- Advanced Concepts Class - 1996 (YouTube) - Murray Bookchin
Ecological Critique
With history for evidence, an ecological critique finds that the idea of dominating nature emerges from the domination of human by human. Economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological problems we face today. Minimally, an ecological society must eliminate the domination of human by human.
- Death of a Small Planet - Murray Bookchin
- Will Ecology become 'The Dismal Science'? - Murray Bookchin
- Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology - Murray Bookchin
- The Population Myth - Murray Bookchin
- Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics - Janet Biehl
- Ambiguities of Animal Rights - Peter Staudenmaier
- Waterloo Lecture - 1985 (YouTube) - Murray Bookchin
Libertarian Municipalism
We develop a political strategy, from ecological critique, for a libertarian municipalist society - organised as a confederation of directly democratic municipal assemblies, production would be municipalised and brought under the control of the assemblies, and the market economy would be replaced with a moral economy.
- Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship - Murray Bookchin
- The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & The Promise of Direct Democracy - Murray Bookchin (Audiobook)
- Democratic Confederalism - Abdullah Ocalan (Audiobook)
- Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview - Murray Bookchin
- The Left That Was: A Personal Reflection - Murray Bookchin
- Thoughts on Libertarian Municipalism - Murray Bookchin
- Seven Left Myths About Capitalism - Institute for Social Ecology
- The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism - Janet Biehl (Audiobook)
- Forms of Freedom Talk - 1985 (YouTube) - Murray Bookchin
Utopian Vision
Seeking to reconstruct society both physically and institutionally, this utopianism includes practical experiments and alternative technology.
- The Utopian Impulse: Reflections on a Tradition - Dan Chodorkoff
- Institute for Social Ecology Interview - 2012 (YouTube) - Dan Chodorkoff
Anarchism
Libraries
Works
- Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman (Audiobook)
- Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos
- To Change Everything, an anarchist appeal - CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective
- Towards An Anarchist Ecology - Sprout Distro
- We House, You are Housed, They are Homeless - Colin Ward
- Dual Power: A Strategy To Build Socialism In Our Time - the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
Libertarian Marxism
Libertarian Marxism refers to a broad scope of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian aspects of Marxism.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (Audiobook)
- Libertarian Marxism? - Daniel Guérin
- Libertarian Marxism's Relation to Anarchism - Wayne Price
Autonomism
Autonomism emphasises the ability of the working class to force changes to the organization of the capitalist system independent of the state, trade unions or political parties.
- Empire - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
- Multitude - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
- Commonwealth - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
- The Subversion of Politics - Georgy Katsiaficas
Communization
Communization is the process of abolishing private ownership of the means of production.
- To Our Friends - The Invisible Committee
- Communization and its Discontents - Benjamin Noys
- Bring Out Your Dead - Endnotes
- Communisation - Trobloin
- The Story of Our Origins - Gilles Dauvé
- Recollecting Our Past - La Banquise
- A World Without Money - The Friends of 4 Million Young Workers
Council Communism
Council communism is a current of socialist thought characterized by its opposition to statism and its advocacy of workers' councils and soviet democracy as the basis for dismantling the class state.
- The Irrational in Politics - Maurice Brinton
- The Bolsheviks and Workers Control - Maurice Brinton
- Hungary '56 - Andy Anderson
- The Revolution is not a party affair - Otto Ruhle
- Workers' Councils - Anton Pannekoek
- Council Communism - Mark Shipway
Frankfurt School
A school of social theory and philosophy that was critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, pointing to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.
- One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
- Negative Dialectics - Theodor W. Adorno
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere - Jürgen Habermas
- The Theory of Communicative Action - Jürgen Habermas
- Dialectic of Englightenment - Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno
- The Authoritarian Personality - Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson & Nevitt Sanford
Luxemburgism
Luxemburgism professes a commitment to a generalized democracy in an unarticulated form, and the necessity of a revolution to bring it about.
- Leninism or Marxism? - Rosa Luxemburg
- The Accumulation of Capital - Rosa Luxemburg
- Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
Situationism
Situationist theory represents an attempt to synthesize this diverse field of theoretical disciplines into a modern and comprehensive critique of advanced capitalism.
- On the Poverty of Student Life - UNEF Strasbourg
- Report on the Construction of Situations - Guy Debord
- The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem
- The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord