Whether the twenty-first century will be the most radical of times or the most reactionary—or will simply lapse into a gray era of dismal mediocrity—will depend overwhelmingly upon the kind […]
Author Archive | Murray Bookchin
Harbinger Vol. 3 No. 1– Reflections: An Overview of the Roots of Social Ecology
By Murray Bookchin on September 1, 2002 in Article Archive, Harbinger, a social ecology journal (2001-2002)
he extent to which radical versions of environmentalism underwent sweeping metamorphoses and evolved into revolutionary ideologies when the New Left came of age is difficult to convey to the present […]
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Murray Bookchin interview
By Murray Bookchin on October 2, 2001 in Article Archive, Harbinger Journal, Harbinger, a social ecology journal (2001-2002), Social Ecology Journals
By David Vanek
Murray Bookchin, born in 1921, has been involved in leftist politics for seven decades and has written almost two dozen books on a great variety of subjects, encompassing ecology, nature philosophy, history, urban studies, and the Left, particularly Marxism and anarchism. In the 1950s, with his long 1952 essay “The Problem of Chemicals in Food,” he warned against the chemicalization of agriculture and the environment, and with this and other writings, he helped lay foundations of the modern radical ecology movement. He is the cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, where he lectures each summer, and professor emeritus at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is currently finishing the third volume of a trilogy, /The Third Revolution,/ which is a history of the great European and American revolutions.
Interview with Murray Bookchin (by Dave Vanek)
Murray Bookchin, born in 1921, has been involved in leftist politics for seven decades and has written almost two dozen books on a great variety of subjects, encompassing ecology, nature […]
Thoughts on Libertarian Municipalism
This article was presented as the keynote speech to the conference “The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism” held in Plainfield, Vermont, U.S.A., on August 26-29, 1999. The speech has […]
The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems
This article by Murray Bookchin originally appeared in New Politics, vol. 6, no. 4 (new series), whole no. 24, Winter 1998 It is politically restorative to look with a fresh […]
A Politics for the 21st Century
This speech was originally presented to the International Conference on the Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism in Lisbon, August 26, 1998 Thank you for the privilege of addressing your […]
Whither Anarchism? A Reply to Recent Anarchist Critics
Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice. Socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. — Mikhail Bakunin What form will anarchism take as it enters the twenty-first century? What basic […]
The Third Revolution Vol 2: Britain’s Socialist Trajectory
Economic factors alone, to be sure, cannot account for the differences in the socialist movements that emerged in Britain and France: political traditions, the flexibility of existing institutions, and the […]
The Unity of Ideals and Practice
Recently I have begun to encounter, especially among young people, individuals who call themselves “leftists” but who have little or no awareness of the most basic features of the Left’s […]