WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #341 - Culture, Read Aurélien Berlan, "Land and freedom, The quest for autonomy against the fantasy of deliverance" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Almost all of our consumer goods are produced by people reduced to slave
labor and we are devastating the world. It is time to get out of "the
socio-ecological impasse into which we are sinking". Building on this
observation and questioning the idea of freedom, the
philosopher-gardener Aurélien Berlan reveals an "old aspiration for
deliverance" under the ideal of emancipation as a tearing away from
nature, to which he opposes the quest for material autonomy. and
politics. ---- From the 17th century, individual freedom based on
property and the rule of law gradually replaced the collective
conception of freedom shared until then by most cultures and traditions
of thought. And the partisans of socialism defended a conception of
freedom ultimately hardly different from that of the liberals, except
that they wanted to achieve it for all. For them too, "Progress is a
vector of deliverance". Modern emancipation has oriented the quest for
deliverance towards technoscientific paths, diverting the exploited from
the fight against socio-political problems, showering them with illusory
promises about the "bright future". However, the material living
conditions of the working classes continue to decline.

More than being freed from the tasks linked to daily life, the working
classes, from the German peasants of 1525 to the peoples of the South
today, demand "autonomy through self-sufficiency and access to local
resources which is the first condition", demand condensed in the slogan:
"Land and freedom!» It is this "subsistence perspective", inspired by
Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt, that the author proposes as "the only
practical, tested and proven alternative to capitalism, and the best
basis of inspiration for rethinking our freedom in a world in turmoil. A
very "nourishing" work.

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

Aurélien Berlan, Earth and freedom, The quest for autonomy against the
fantasy of deliverance, editions La Lenteur, 2021, 220 pages, 16 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Aurelien-Berlan-Terre-et-liberte-La-quete-d-autonomie-contre-le-fantasme
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