corvidae

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About me

I am a graduate student studying cultural transmission of behavior in animals, who is active in Left-Libertarian politics, environmentalism and loves birding.

Favourite books
Animal Traditons, Evolution in Four Dimensions, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Mutual Aid, Mind of the Raven, Gesse of Beaver Bog, Kingbird Highway
Interests
Animal behavior, evolutionary biology, group level behavior, Libertarian Socialism, Anarchism, animal ethics, environmentalism, Labor movements, cultural evolution, linguistics, wilderness
Music
folk
Dislikes
anarchist individualists, post-modern insurrectionist nonsense, new age spirituality, primitivism, corporate science, useless counter constructive subcultures that turn into militant ghettos (aka punk, skinhead ect, ect, ect....)

Networking and politics

Political label
left-libertarian (anarchist-communist, with a dash of Marx!)
Region
North America
Country and town
New York, Montana, Netherlands, Utrecht
Employment sector
education and learning
Union membership
IWW
Political group membership
none at the momment
Occupation
student
What do your politics mean to you?

I see anarchism as the logical extension of enlightenment ideals and good vision for a just future.

Favourite thinkers
Left-Libertarian- Peter Kropotkin, Anton Pannekoek, Élisée Reclus, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Rudolph Rocker, Rosa Luxemburg, Antoi Negri...others, Science and Nature- Eva Jablonka, Charles Darwin, Donald Griffin, Peter Kropotkin, Niko Tinbergen, Bernd Heinrich, George John Romanes, and a bunch of more "modern" researchers
Favourite political books
Workers Councils, Anarcho-syndicalism, Empire, Mutual Aid, God and the State, Society of the Spectacle, Age of Extremes, Marx eyond Marx, Obsolete Communism, so many others
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
WREF!, RAAN, NEFAC, and other less radical organizations

History

Member for
20 weeks 17 hours