insightful ones

Steven Welzer
1 min readSep 18, 2023

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Fredy Perlman and David Watson were among those who started to go the heart of things fifty years ago. And they wrote with heart … grounded in biocentrism. Samuel Alexander is more pedestrian, but he’s more accessible and he currently shows us the way forward. Kirk Sale says the very deep things that no one else will say (“it’s not just problematic, it’s insane”). But he’s not as accessible as Samuel Alexander.

Fabian Scheidler may conceivably be the best messenger of them all. He goes around Europe lecturing (in a manner reminiscent of Charles Atterley in The Story of B):

https://fabianscheidler.com/
his website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsyvh-dse7k
he introduces his book The End of the Megamachine … ten minutes (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wSTyHTG90
Noam Chomsky and Fabian Scheidler interviewed together … over an hour (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBvgHjajvE
Fabian Scheidler talk at the Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam … 25 minutes (2019)

www.megamaschine.org/en
publisher’s English translation book promotion web page (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhqPWSOOZQ
interview by Jake Heath … over an hour (2020)

https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/fabian-scheidler/
list of articles in Resilience magazine

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Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.