About

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Better Worlds > Brighter Futures dares to articulate a positive, revolutionary future for humanity while advocating the creation of fulfilling lives in the present.

The end goal:

Through the application of liberatory technology, the creation of free, revolutionary, decentralized human communities. While having a high material standard of living, these communities seek to socially organize themselves horizontally and economically organize themselves on a needs-based distribution model. Most importantly, these communities seek to reestablish the mutually beneficial relationships between humanity and the natural world and between humanity itself that are so vital to the fulfillment of both society and the individual.

The purpose of this blog:

To advocate for, and discuss my research of, social ecology. To advocate the shift from workplace, class, or other struggles to the neighborhood as the center of revolutionary activity. To put forward a positive body of ideas (in contrast to so many negative “revolutionary” ideologies), giving encouragement to those struggling to leave the world a better place than they found it. To engage in constructive discussion. 

The premises on which this blog rests (which support its stated purpose):

• Positivity: In opposition to the many negative tendencies within the antiauthoritarian left — specifically within anarchism — this blog focuses on what needs to be done, one way in which it can be done, and what it will look like when we get there.
• Social Ecology: Based largely on the work of Murray Bookchin, social ecology is a contemporary, positive, and revolutionary body of ideas that seeks to fulfill the historical promise of anarchist-communism by transcending both anarchism and marxism. Rooted in the Enlightenment tradition (secularism, freethought, reason/rationality, egalitarianism, etc.) of revolutionary struggle, social ecology’s contemporary relevance stems from its razor sharp critique of current, advanced capitalism in North America and Europe, its focus on ecological issues, and its insightful analysis of the state and its contemporary role. Far from simply an Ivy-league abstraction, a social ecology analysis allows us to determine practical, concrete steps for moving toward a revolutionary, ecological society.
• Social Anarchism: As social ecology is the contemporary transcendence of anarchist and marxist thought, it is the next stage in a rich history of revolutionary struggle that must not be forgotten. Particularly, social ecology has much in common with traditional anarchist-communism as laid out by Peter Kropotkin and Elisee Reclus. See the  Anarchist-Communist Archive for many works by Peter Kropotkin.

Better Worlds > Brighter Futures is the main blog of The Nuclear Summer and its administrator, Charles Imboden.