“Inspired by the ideal of self-sufficiency developed by the anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, the German architect Leberecht Migge…
“Inspired by the ideal of self-sufficiency developed by the anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, the German architect Leberecht Migge integrated it into his project of self-sufficient co-operatives. In his pamphlet Jedermann Selbstversorger (Everyone Self-Sufficient, 1918) and his article ‘Das grüne Manifest’ (1919, the first occurrence of the term ‘green’ in a political sense), he developed a political and urbanistic theory based on garden cities that would be self-sufficient thanks to solar and wind power, horticulture and the strict recycling of organic waste. Recycling was the essential lever to escape from the great technological networks of capitalism and establish self-management, ‘the smallest form of government possible – according to the will of the people’.”— Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene