24 Facts About Green anarchism

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Green anarchism is an anarchist school of thought that puts a particular emphasis on ecology and environmental issues.

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Green anarchism produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle Geographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, over a period of nearly 20 years.

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Green anarchism described the "tragic bandits" of the Bonnot gang as refusing to eat meat or drink wine, preferring plain water.

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Green anarchism participated alongside Henri Beylie and Emile Gravelle in many journals such as La Nouvelle Humanite and La Vie Naturelle, which promoted anarchist-naturism.

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Green anarchism writes it under the odd pseudonym of silvestre del campo.

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Green anarchism published the book El Comunismo Libertario y otras proclamas insurreccionales y naturistas in 1933, which sold around 100,000 copies, and wrote the final document for the Extraordinary Confederal Congress of Zaragoza of 1936 which established the main political line for the CNT for that year.

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Green anarchism saw naturism as an integral solution for the working classes, alongside Neo-Malthusianism, and believed it concerned the living being while anarchism addressed the social being.

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Green anarchism believed capitalist societies endangered the well-being of humans from both a socioeconomic and sanitary viewpoint, and promoted anarcho-communism alongside naturism as a solution.

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Green anarchism inspired similar communal experiments in the United States where the residents were influenced by the views of Henry George and Edward Bellamy as well as in Russia, England and the Netherlands.

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Green anarchism argued that massive external aid to poorer nations stifled local initiatives and participation.

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11.

Green anarchism's vision called for a dissolution of centralized political and economic structures in favor of local control.

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12.

Green anarchism's groundbreaking essay "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" introduced ecology as a concept in radical politics.

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Green anarchism wrote several books about Christianity, the technological society, propaganda, and the interaction between religion and politics.

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14.

Notable contemporary writers espousing green anarchism include Layla AbdelRahim, Derrick Jensen, Jaime Semprun, George Draffan, John Zerzan, Starhawk and Alan Carter.

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Green anarchism is the editor and compiler of The Murray Bookchin Reader ; the author of The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism and Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics ; and coauthor of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience.

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16.

Magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principal voice in the United Kingdom advocating green anarchism, an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking.

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17.

Green anarchism's works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like.

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18.

Green anarchism is the host of Anarchy Radio in Eugene on the University of Oregon's radio station KWVA.

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19.

Green anarchism has served as a contributing editor at Anarchy Magazine and has been published in magazines such as AdBusters.

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20.

Green anarchism began to question civilization in the early 80's, after having sought to confront issues around the neutrality of technology and division of labour, at the time when Fredy Perlman was making similar conclusions.

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21.

Green anarchism cites palaeoanthropologist Clive Gamble who connects this development in hunting technologies to colonization and the work of anthropologist Richard Lee who links the appearance of human language to the rise in hunting activities during that period.

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Total liberationism is a form of green anarchism that combines an opposition to all forms of human oppression with a commitment to animal and earth liberation.

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Green anarchism syndicalism is a synthesis of anarcho-syndicalism and environmentalism, arguing that protection of the environment depends on decentralization, regionalism, direct action, autonomy, pluralism and federation.

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Green anarchism syndicalism has been advocated for at various times by Confederation Nationale du Travail, the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden.

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