ABSTRACT
Anarchists and ecological economists attack the dominating economy for being caught in a mechanical paradigm and argue that the most important event is a shift to an organic paradigm. Experience has indicated how hard it is to implement the principles of ecological economics within the current economic and political system, based as it is on diametrically opposed ideas. This chapter presents how a shift towards anarchism as a political platform is relevant in the implementation of ecological economics. The hard core of anarchism can be expressed through concepts such as freedom in solidarity, self-government and mutualism. If ecological economics is realized through a political platform derived from the hard core of anarchism, then the potential for individual, social and environmental responsibility is actualized and amplified. Both anarchism and ecological economics are inspired by process philosophy and argue that relations are more essential than objects.
