ABSTRACT

Anarchism has a long history of integrating art, such as painting, photography, music, magazines, and theatre, into the process of developing a life-enhancing culture in local societies. Action in non-violent anarchism has to be creative and constructive instead of destructive. According to anarchism, an ecologically sustainable society is incompatible with the demand for continually growing markets, achieved through the invention of wants and built in obsolescence of consumer goods in capitalism. Peter Kropotkin's fusion of agriculture and industry was essential in anarchism's potential for cultural renewal. Aesthetic sensibility will be stimulated as art and creativity become a part of daily life. Kropotkin maintained that the economy must become the physiology of society. Ecological economics has little chance of success in a society characterized by top-down regulations and the dominating all-embracing control systems. Behaviour, in contrast to mainstream economics, is more important than technology.