Social ecology of freedom as a community commitment

• Camilo RESTREPO-OTAVO Universidad de la República (Uruguay) / Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)

Keywords: Social Ecology of Freedom, confederalism, communitarianism

Abstract

The social ecology proposed by Murray Bookchin argues that ecological problems are a consequence of the way in which society is organized, i.e. hierarchically. Based on the identification of this problem, social ecology proposes to generate a non-hierarchical interrelationship between ecological systems and social systems. In order to make this ethic viable, it is based on a community commitment that is reflected through an assembly dynamic, where each member of the community has a voice and influence, and an ecological habit that involves the recognition of agro-ecological forms of cultivation, as well as liberating technologies. This dynamic, fundamentally based on community processes, seeks to abolish all hierarchical forms of domination and subordination.

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