There is no single anarchist position, and many anarchists refuse to offer any proposal at all, arguing that if society liberates itself from State and capitalism, it will change organically, not on the lines of any blueprint. Besides, the attitude of policy, seeing the world from above and imposing changes, is inextricable from the culture that is responsible for destroying the planet and oppressing its inhabitants.
Aotearoa/New Zealand Anti-Capitalist Green Front
How would anarchists suggest we reorganize society in order to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to survive an already changed world?
There is no single anarchist position, and many anarchists refuse to offer any proposal at all, arguing that if society liberates itself from State and capitalism, it will change organically, not on the lines of any blueprint. Besides, the attitude of policy, seeing the world from above and imposing changes, is inextricable from the culture that is responsible for destroying the planet and oppressing its inhabitants.
Nonetheless, I want to outline one possible way we could organize our lives, not to make a concrete proposal, but because visions make us stronger, and we all need the courage to break once and for all with the existing institutions and the false solutions they offer. For the purposes of this text I’m not going to enter…
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For normalcy to arrive on its own (the only logical solution!) society needs to free itself from, to eschew, the three ruling forces it currently slaves under: organized religion in every form, the state and banking. As another blogger says, “God, Government, Gold” have to go. These to be replaced by “spirit, mind and nature.”
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Sha’Tara, I myself would add patriarchy to that list. For normalcy to arrive on its own, women definitely need to achieve full equality.
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My personal “studies” and observations tell me that the patriarchy is is what the evil trinity of god, government and gold is all about maintaining. Take out the scaffold and whatever is using it collapses. In other words, I think the patriarchy is not a stand alone force or a fourth leg of power.
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