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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24255628

Murray Bookchin (1921 - 2006)

Fri Jan 14, 1921

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Murray Bookchin, born on this day in 1921, was a libertarian socialist political philosopher whose thought is associated with the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

Bookchin was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban planning, and social ecology. Some notable titles include "Our Synthetic Environment", "Post-Scarcity Anarchism", and "The Ecology of Freedom". In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement and stopped referring to himself as an anarchist.

Bookchin's ideas have influenced social movements since the 1960s, including the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and, most notably, Abdullah Öcalan's concept of democratic confederalism and its application in Rojava.

"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

- Murray Bookchin


[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 37 points 7 months ago (7 children)

At the same time I’d like to remind folks that not all Jewish people subscribe to Zionism.

Further to this, the majority of zionists are christians.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A right thing. And not a very substantial one. But don't sell the UK short. The government might be despicable, but the massive marches in London by the people have been inspiring. The power of that crowd needs to be channelled into direct action.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

I’m pretty sure that the United States was founded on the principle of self determination

Self determination for who? For rich, land-owning, white males.

The US was founded on the same genocidal settler-colonialism as Israel.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe it won't make an impact this election, but if people start voting for third parties regardless, the Democrats would be incentivised to do better and/or to introduce ranked-choice voting.

In any case, people need to stop waiting for elections and to start taking action now.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Boycott HP: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you're describing is 'settler colonialism'. It differs from 'exploitation colonialism' in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!

https://bdsmovement.net/

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

It doesn't says by who until the 4th paragraph, information that should be in the headline

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not both sides doing the same thing. Israel has been displacing, brutalising and killing Palestinians for 70 years. Israel has a modern army, a modern air force, nuclear weapons and a functional economy.

Since 1948, Israel has taken the vast majority of the land and continues to chip away at what little remains to Palestinians through illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Gaza is an open air prison that Israel constantly surveils and bombs, controls who and what gets in and out and even regulates how many calories per day Gazans are allowed.

It's not both sides doing the same thing. It's a settler colonial apartheid state brutalising an indigenous people who are holding on for dear life.

It’s just a war about a magical sky God, and his magical holy land

No it's not. It's about settler colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

archive.is usually works to remove the paywall: https://archive.is/lQVvD

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