Organic radicals: new site launched

A new website has been launched which challenges "to the core" the thinking of the industrial capitalist system.

It presents the ideological alternative of an "organic radicalism" which it sources from a wide range of thinkers, past and present.

This philosophy, it says, is based on the idea of a living community, a social organism consisting of "horizontal relationships and exchanges between free human beings, rather than on sterile hierarchy".

The site explains that it rejects the industrial capitalist view of nature as something to be exploited, commercialised, dominated or relegated to second place behind an imagined human priority.

"For us, humankind’s interests cannot be separated from the wider interests of the natural world, because we are nothing other than an extension of that world.

"We reject notions of economic growth or technological advance as any kind of worthwhile basis for society and propose instead a world founded on the healthy values of respect for nature and other creatures; simple but joyful living; an appreciation of inner and outer beauty; a sense of communal responsibility and belonging".

In its Q&A section it defines the "orgrad" position as an evolution of anarchism.

But it adds: "From our perspective, contemporary anarchism does not go far enough in its opposition to industrial capitalism.

"In the same way as other leftists can become stuck within the broader capitalist mindset, merely seeking greater equality, individual freedom or self-management within the context of capitalism and the state, so do too many anarchists base their vision of the future on the industrial society created by and for capitalism.

"Orgrad also proposes a holistic world-view, based on organic belonging to community, species and nature, which is considered unacceptable by many contemporary anarchists, due to the influence of modern ideologies appropriate to capitalism.

"To be clear, orgrad has no interest at all in the dead-end narcissism of ultra-liberal identity politics".

The site stresses that organic radicalism is firmly anti-fascist, defining it as "a left-wing, internationalist, humanist, universalist, anti-racist, anti-state, anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, anti-authoritarian ideology".

The organic radicals website is at https://orgrad.wordpress.com

The email contact is orgrad(at)riseup.net

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WOW!!! what a brand new and unique idea!

i am sure that one more website dedicated to articulating what is REALLY wrong with the world and the one true cure, will tip the scales and commence the destruction of civilization as we know it!

I just kept emailing and messaging Utopia but she doesn't reply! After a few hours looking back and forth at the cell phone screen I had to drop and move on to other things in life. What the hell is wrong with these Left idealists can't they even fucking read/listen!?

I'm all for new organizations rephrasing it all for the next generation or whatever.
But, (you knew there was a butt, er, but) how do these folks square
"The site explains that it rejects the industrial capitalist view of nature as something to be exploited, commercialised, dominated or relegated to second place behind an imagined human priority."

with
"The site stresses that organic radicalism is firmly anti-fascist, defining it as "a left-wing, internationalist, humanist, universalist, anti-racist, anti-state, anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, anti-authoritarian ideology".

You want to be humanist and you want to reject the human project? Pick a side already.

"A radical is nothing but a liberal with a big mouth".
-Mavis

wtf ! a so called anti cap, the lead label btw, web site that has adds plastered on the opening page. how the fuck can you call yourselves 'anti cap' ? i don't want your fucking hearing aids or shoes or any thing else your selling! what a fucking scam!

That's only because you browse this wordpress blog through a clearnet browser with all the scripts, STUUUPID! Uh-huhuhuhuhuh! And shall I add "Huuh!".

That's Wordpress's doing. They put ads on there unless you pay them not to. A scam, yes, but the people doing the blog are not the perpetrators...

you can easily get a noblogs/nostate/blackblogs variant of the wordpress platform that does not do that

either way, the content (not the layout or presentation) of that specific website looks like a highschooler’s first try. hopefully they learn from it and quckly get didillusioned from such misguided efforts.

I have read many of the authors listed on your site. i found them through wikipedia, and various libraries, online and irl, as well as googling around, and participating in chats and forums. you know what i got out of it? sore ass and eyes from sitting around reading a lot. is that your goal? to give people sore eyes and asses?

"When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver"

Quote from a play by Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with Nazi philosophy, as a member of the officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich. The statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, variously misattributed to Himmler, Goebbels and Göring, was in fact a corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter.
Yes, anti-capitalists are the national socialists, that's why its important to be anti-Statist in all of its forms.

and anti-capitalist second. Obvious given which ideologies can be called anti-capitalist. Some of course got into power and made the state even worse.

description just makes me vomit, these people are just all about word soups, not investigative analysis, philosophical conclusions, or doing any sort of activity, just vomiting back the same cliches that anarchists have before.

@ziggy: not sure what prioritizing my opinions and anti-____s would do in order to benefit me or anyone else, even though i see your point in that the state was the precedent of capitalism, and that capitalism couldn't exist without the more direct violence of the state.

what do you know about these people? how is it thta people online make these assumptions that folks who write don't do other things too? so odd.

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