What Kind of Anarchism Survives the 20th Century?

A question in this article that I feel is important. "Has social ecology been eclipsed in ecological anarchism? Should it be revived?"

Partially, yes and absolutely yes. In my honest opinion, it's a great shame that some other anarchistic eco-currents (like anarcho-primitivism, rewilding, and now solarpunk-ish movements) have sometimes pushed Bookchin aside, finding social ecology too rationalist. Its insight, that we need communal, decentralized, directly democratic solutions to ecological collapse, is more relevant than ever. Maybe today it needs to be expanded. Maybe we make it more pluralistic, more attuned to Indigenous knowledges, more experimental. But its core spirit absolutely deserves revival.

Bloody hell, their comment section is toxic.

I do agree with many of them that Enlightenment philosophy served to calcify hierarchy and elitism by dismissing all "non-rational" argument, with "non-rational" defined to enshrine patriarchy, elitism, whiteness, centralized executive power, alienation of labor, etc.

It is debilitating to ignore the biggest part of the brain when doing intellectual activity. Any successful intellectual has learned to hide their intuitions behind a charade of Rationality, but that mandatory hiding prevents people from communicating the most important parts and from learning to address their most toxic intuitions. This is why schools are so bad at their jobs; we aren't allowed to communicate what matters. This is why psychology academia is so ill-fitting; we aren't allowed to publish how we decide to make good decisions.

And in context of the central question, the 21st century rise of post-rationalism is the natural product of two centuries of rationalism steering us off a cliff and designing our societies to be hollow optimizations of certain rational paramaters. We can't survive by going back to the system that is currently in its death throes.

What kind of anarchism survives the 20th century? 21st century anarchism. Lifestyle anarchism; the active pursuit of what feels fulfilling when taking the entire world into consideration, rather than what you can rationally justify. Communities of people who enjoy each other's company doing things with enthousiastic consent or sitting out. Seeing what communities feel healthy and which help people and the world flourish.

We learn by trying, and we try by feeling.