Social Ecology

Social Ecology Social ecology is a redesigned inheritor of the anarchist tradition with all its associated political values and hostility to the state, liberals and Marxists. It stands for individual autonomy and envisages society as a series of decentralized local communities, each strongly connected to a specific ‘bioregion’. An eminent Social Ecologist Bookchin, the roots of all evil, in human society no less than inhuman relationships with nature, is hierarchy. Hierarchy has arisen only in the last six thousands years or so human civilizations. Whether manifested in the domination of peasants by lords, of women by men, of the country side by the city, of the young by the old, of workers by capitalists, of society by the state, of nature by the people, or of the body by the mind, hierarchy is a profoundly undesirable and unnatural phenomenon. For Bookchin sees no hierarchy in the nonhuman world. Relationships witch humans perceive as competitive or dominating are infact subtle examples of mutual benefits. Nature is not the violent struggle for survival of the fittest, which apologists for war and capitalism portray. Instead, nature properly understood is a cooperative place, indeed a model for harmonious human society, and the place where freedom originates.