The agenda is about reclaiming our power from the manipulations and appropriations of our lifeworld by the systems of Imperial Modernity. In response, ecolibertarians believe less-oppressive ways of being and behaving need to be restored and applied to obtaining greater control of capital and state organisations, thereby funnelling resources into commonly-owned organisations, resources, platforms and currencies so that a gentler and fairer collapse of societies might be possible. Therefore, today, those same institutionalised patterns of establishment power are distorting public awareness of the breakdown of societies and the best means of responding to that (Chapter 13). “The people I am describing as ‘ecolibertarians’ have concluded that societies destroy their own eco-social foundations because the self-interests of the powerful are institutionalised to then coerce or manipulate people to experience life as unsafe and competitive, so that more people cope by becoming more unthoughtful, uncaring and acquisitive. Below is an excerpt which introduces a few of the terms and ideas.Įxcerpt from Breaking Together (Jem Bendell, 2023, Good Works). It is an extensive introduction in which I seek to encapsulate the full argument of the book, albeit without the detail in the following chapters. A free audio recording of the Introduction to ‘Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse’ is now available.
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