Class consciousness and some quotes from Murray Bookchin

Divide et impera

We have lost what it is to be class conscious and lost how to recognizing hierarchical structures of power.

Capitalism is a system based on greed, blind growth and stops us in our tracks of evolving man and nature in a sustainable way too new heights.

If nothing is done and like it is now..capitalism and its structure will fail and take mankind with it.

Every protest or emancipation movement only separated us ..more, instead of make people equal, the opressed wanted to stand above the opressor instead of coming together equally to take on a bigger man.

And as long as we dont adress the capitalist class system and that most people are equally affected..and that we have to stand together.

No matter your race, religion, gender etc.

If we keep battling each other in our designated classes, we will be inslaved forever but if we recognize they exist then we can move beyond the structure and abolish the order.
we have to adress hierarchical power!!

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“Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of “grow or die,” is a thoroughly impersonal, self-operating mechanism, we will falsely tend to blame technology as such or population growth as such for environmental problems. We will ignore their root causes, such as trade for profit, industrial expansion, and the identification of “progress” with corporate self-interest. In short, we will tend to focus on the symptoms of a grim social pathology rather than on the pathology itself, and our efforts will be directed toward limited goals whose attainment is more cosmetic than curative.”

― Murray Bookchin

“In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control.... Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.”

― Murray Bookchin

“Social Ecology:

The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man… But it was not until organic community relation … dissolved into market relationships that the planet itself was reduced to a resource for exploitation. This centuries-long tendency finds its most exacerbating development in modern capitalism. Owing to its inherently competitive nature, bourgeois society not only pits humans against each other, it also pits the mass of humanity against the natural world. Just as men are converted into commodities, so every aspect of nature is converted into a commodity, a resource to be manufactured and merchandised wantonly. … The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.”

― Murray Bookchin

“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals and gays (the list, in fact, is considerable) — society will be riddled by domination even in a socialistic ‘classless’ and ‘non-exploitative’ form. It would be infused by hierarchy even as it celebrated the dubious virtues of ‘people’s democracies,’ ’socialism’ and the ‘public ownership’ of ‘natural resources,’ And as long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction” 

― Murray Bookchin

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