Personal
- 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