Then I'm sure you're also familiar with the ransacking of Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in 1933, where some of the first treatment plans for trans people were developed. It was a place where gay people and trans people were accepted and treated with respect by medical personnel.
That famous picture of the book burnings? Those were patient records and the research archives of the institute. So no, it did not just start with gay people, and trans people's persecution by nazis was relevant to bring up because it's one of the first kinds of persecution the nazis did. Dismissing that is ahistorical and dismissive of the history of oppression of trans people.
You're describing anarchism ;)
Definitely not the Netherlands, we've got a terrible case of American-style individualist brain-rot
Union membership rates in the Netherlands are like 10% only. Ever since the end of 'Pillarisation' we've been mostly individualist. The only real exceptions are religious communities and local sports clubs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
We'll need a massive cultural change first to make people care about their fellow citizens again. We're too alienated.
I think Denmark has a much better chance, because their society favours collectivism a lot more. But then again Danish society has its own issues of course
If you're looking for theory, The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin is where it's at
Any sci fi novel by Ursula K. le Guin will have solarpunk elements, especially The Dispossessed
The protesters will block this same stretch of road every single day from now until fossil fuel subsidies are ended. Every day, for as long as necessary
It's Danish for 'kiss'
Yes I'm an activist irl in my local queer-leftist scene and I'm active in my neighborhood's collective. What do you do except write these posts?
Just because I'm questioning your motives for re-packaging anarchism in a weird way doesn't mean I'm a bad-faith actor LMFAO
I question your methods and aims. Because all of your writings have a WEEEEIIIIRD vibe to them. And you don't engage with criticism, you just say 'read the text, it's in there.' And it never is.
Not only representative politics. We need to focus on grassroots initiatives as well.
Both is good
I'm amazed to see an article written by a mainstream news outlet that is well-informed about Anarchism!
You're also supposing that this climate crisis that the governments are currently inflicting on their people is not violence. And that the police beating protesters is not violence.
It is violence, and we should be able to defend ourselves.
Within 15 minutes' biking distance:
A gym
A dedicated 'third place' - like a community center or something else dedicated to socializing outside work and the home.
Daniel P. Jaeckle Embodied Anarchy in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed 2009
I have recently read Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which is a wonderful look into a Solarpunk world. However, an important critique that the book emphasizes is that this new Solarpunk society (or, well, an Anarchist society really) has produced a 'tyranny of bureaucracy' and a number of social pressures that stifle individual ambition and that punish those that are different from the norm.
Would you agree that Le Guin's critique can be useful for the solarpunk movement?
I have attached an analysis of the novel as well.
>In the novel, the two most prominent slices of reality that require complementary interpretations are Shevek’s General Temporal Theory and his vision of anarchism on Anarres. Just as he sees Sequency and Simultaneity as complementary, so he sees individual freedom and social responsibility as the complementary manifestations of anarchy. Moreover, Shevek is able to comprehend anarchy in a complementary way only because his view is based on the theory of time that he has developed.
Bugs are always a trophic level above plants. It's always more efficient to 'cut out the middle man' and eat plants instead.
There's travel and there's travel
When people go to some place to see the sights and lie on the beach, that's not the same experience as when someone goes to an unfamiliar place to meet new people and really engage with their new location. The former is like junk food compared to an actual meal.