Individual or Social Liberty
adapted from Murray Bookchin -- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a...
Art, a pillar of Rojava’s revolution
https://youtu.be/iyAfI3fVK2k
reading list — recent discussions of land value taxation
Brian Hodgkinson -- A New Model of the Economy Systematically recognizes land as a critical factor of production—separate from labor and capital—and thereby properly sets the stage for an in-depth analysis of what causes various social ailments such as wealth...
the Landlord’s Game rules
THE LANDLORD'S GAME The Landlord's Game may be played by two or more. Each player selects one piece, and, if there are two players, each provides himself with $6oo; if three players, each $500; if four players, each $400. All money and implements not in use by...
rojava open economy
Open Economy The economy in Cizîre/Rojava is functioning on a survival basis. The other cantons, Afrin and Kobanê, depend on the wealth of Cizîre. Our economy is vital for the others. We are paying all costs for institutions of self-government and public services. We...
Liberty as social
Edmund Burke You hope, sir, that I think the French deserving of liberty. I certainly do. I certainly think that all men who desire it, deserve it. It is not the reward of our merit, or the acquisition of our industry. It is our inheritance. It is the birthright of...
Problems of decentralization
If many pragmatic people are blind to the importance of decentralism, many in the ecology movement tend to ignore very real problems with “localism” — problems no less troubling than the problems raised by a globalism that fosters a total interlocking of economic and...
Confederalism and State Power
Above all, I have tried to show in my previous writings how confederation on a municipal basis has existed in sharp tension with the centralized state generally, and the nation-state of recent times. Confederalism, I have tried to emphasize, is not simply a unique...
Confederalism and Interdependence
Decentralism and self-sustainability must involve a much broader principle of social organization than mere localism. Together with decentralization, approximations to self-sufficiency, humanly scaled communities, ecotechnologies, and the like, there is a compelling...
Decentralism and Self Sustainability
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking (as witness the recent tendency of radicals to espouse “market socialism” rather than deal with the failings of the market economy as well as state...