Is anything these guys write actually worth reading or are they overhyped? Are there any good reading-lists?
General thread on these guys, I guess
Ocalan and Bookchin
Alexander Cox
William Gray
Oh look it's this thread again, for the fourth time this year.
Jason Perez
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Levi Morales
Do we really need the same thread starting with asking "Was Bookchin good/worth reading/bad?" every couple of months?
Lincoln Young
Bookchin is ok, but he was hyper sectarian and he and his followers struggle to adequately explain how communalism isn't just ancom with social democratic characteristics. You're better off reading him for yourself to make up your own mind though.
Why not? It's not like the threads bumped off the catalogue were going to see life or vidya, thots, trump, japan acceleration, nationalism with socialist characteristics, and Ojeda are incredibly relevant topics.
Parker Clark
Shit you're right.
Joshua Watson
Based on the state of this board’s quality I’d say this thread is more than welcome
Jacob Nelson
Best two introductions to his ideas are The Next Revolution, followed by Social Ecology and Communalism. Otherwise this reading guide is good:
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He really wasn't sectarian, unless we're understanding "sectarianism" to mean sticking to a principled position and not deviating from it.
Ryan Morris
See pic for Bookchin. For Öcalan, try his Maifesto for a Democratic Civilization, and specifically "The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan." If covers jineology and Democratic Confederalism basics.
Adrian Gutierrez
Thanks, anons
Julian Campbell
Bookchin was too much of a Kurdophile for me to care about him.
Joshua Reyes
Bookchin is alright for democratic confederalism but don't think his "Social ecology" isn't ecological at all if he still supports cities
Brody Sanchez
Of course. Not many actually know what social ecology is or the difference between Communalism and DemCon.
Oliver Martinez
Absolute state
Isaac Lopez
I think neither Bookchin nor his readers have the faintest clue about what the word ecology even means.
Robert Ortiz
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Jordan Howard
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Hudson Anderson
While he admits to being inspired by Bookchin, Öcalan is a hack who just copy-pasted communalism, added a sprinkling of "national self-determination" (no state dough of course also not da bad kind of nationalism lol) and called it something completely different ("democratic confederalism")
Juan Reyes
Is it really stealing if you adopt what you think are good ideas and add some of your own thought to it? I doubt Bookchin sperged out
Levi Walker
Find me a single sentence in the entire body of Bookchin's published works where he even talks about the Kurds
Bookchin talks about ecology's origin's in Haeckel, and expounds on the differences between a natural and social ecology. So maybe actually read him before making these claims you gigantic faggot.
Ocalan didn't "copy-pasted" communalism, he used Bookchin's dialectical naturalism and its general principles and applied them to the particulars of the Middle East.
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Logan Cooper
You know what's wild? That list was originally from Zig Forums. The Zig Forums one is an edit I got from here lmao
t. That dude who got banned again
Jaxson Cooper
Ecology is not a "thing" or a state of harmony to strive for like non-biologist hacks like Bookchin would have you believe, it's a word that describes studying how populations of organisms relate to one another. hurr fuckin durr
Luis Harris
Brody Edwards
wtf i love ocalan now
Dominic Powell
Is this what Bad Mouse is flaking on about?
Communalism is just a hybrid of syndicalism from what I've seen.
Nathaniel Diaz
It's more like a hybrid of Kropotkinist anarcho-communism with Marxism.
Eli Hernandez
As someone who likes Kropotkin and Marxism, it would make sense why this stuff appeals to me so much
Mason Smith
Can't find the source for that quote anywhere. All I can find was an article that claimed he stated that without a source, along with another quote which *was* sourced talking about the need for a "lean state" devoted to administration, but not legislation. Which is not exactly how many anarchists would define a state. It just sounds like Bookchin's distinction between the justification of delegation for administrative institutions while retaining direct democracy for policy formation, something he even talked about while he still identified as an anarchist.
Tyler Perez
I'll actually backpedal on this because a lot of anarchists are against literally all hierarchy, and revise it to "Bookchinite anarchists".
Brandon Jenkins
Ocalan makes explicit his rejection of anarchism in his Prison Writings volumes. I don't remember the exact citation, as it's been a while since I read them. As for Bookchin's distinction between the state and government, you're kind of thinking along the right lines as to the distinction between policy and administration, although this is only one part of it. The full distinction between the state and government is clear when you understand that Bookchin was conceiving of governance along the lines of Arendtian social contract theory.
Mason Jenkins
bookchin thinks industrial technology can be sustained in on an exclusively local basis, i.e. without exchange
hes delusional
Charles Smith
The solution is to make threads about people you like so there's more good content on the board.
Joseph Cox
State =/= government. A state is specifically an institution that asserts itself through force to claim sovereignty over territory bounded by borders. A government can be defined as simply people collectively organizing to run things. Some people use the words interchangeably but from that quote it sounds like it's not a state being described.
Owen Gomez
"There is a need for a non-State oriented democratic socialist theory, programme, strategy and tactics."
"Democracy is governance that is not the State: it is the power of communities to govern themselves without the State."
Sounds pretty anarchist to me…
Dylan Ward
Exactly the point I was making.