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Or, if it is so decided, their radical and complete transformation so that, ceasing to be powers centralized and organized from the top down, by violence or by authority of some principle, they may recognize -- with absolute liberty for all the parties to unite or not to unite, and with liberty for each of these always to leave a union even when freely entered into -- from the bottom up, according to the real needs and the natural tendencies of the parties, through the free federation of individuals, associations, communes, districts, provinces, and nations within humanity. * 3 The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to eliminate hierarchical relationships. It emphasizes the just demands of the oppressed in a society that wantonly exploits human beings, and it calls for their freedom. It explores the possibility of a new technology and a new sensibility, including more organic forms of reason, that will harmonize our relationship with nature instead of opposing society to the natural world. It demands sweeping institutional changes that will abolish a competitive "grow-or-die" market society -- frankly, called capitalism, not such politically safe and socially neutral words like an "industrial," "technological," or "post-industrial" society -- and replace it with an ecologically oriented society based on free, confederated, humanly scaled communities in which people will have direct, face-to-face control over their personal and social lives. * 4 ...Proudhon here appears as a supporter of direct democracy and assembly self- management on a clearly civic level, a form of social organization well worth fighting for in an era of centralization and oligarchy. * 5 Revolutionaries yes, but above all anarchists. ONE: Destruction of all concentrations of political power is the first duty of oppressed people. TWO: Any organization of an allegedly provisional revolutionary political power to achieve this destruction cannot be other than one trick more, and would be as dangerous to the people as are all present governments. THREE: In refusing every compromise for the achievement of the revolution, workers of the world must establish solidarity in revolutionary action outside the framework of bourgeois politicians. * 6 Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism. * 7 In place of a society organized along class lines, marked by hierarchy and authority, anarchism advocates a self-managed, self-reliant society based on cooperative, voluntary mutual aid and association, and devoid of government (i.e., coercion). * 8 ...he does not command; neither does he destroy. * 9 For anarchists, hierarchical institutions such as the state, church and big business are the opposite from, indeed the enemy of, free collaboration or association. Whatever functional reasons may have nourished their original roots, they long since had mystified such rationales simply to perpetuate their own power. * 10 For anarchists the absence of hierarchy also concerns action. When carried out in a projectual dimension with a real tension towards freedom, the validity of any one kind of action depends on the existence of all the others. * 11 There will be times, however -- primarily when the word democratic is used as an adjective -- that something less formal will be meant. Tannenbaum, who conceptualizes control, and hence democracy, disregarding formal procedures, defines the democratic organization as one in which "groups at the lower levels in the hierarchy (such as rank and file) have more control than groups at higher levels (such as executive board or president)." Following this general idea, a decision-making process will be assumed to be more democratic if the influence of those lower in the organizational structure is increasing. 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