Libertarian Municipalism: The New Municipal Agenda

This article consists of excerpts from From Urbanization to Cities (1987; London: Cassell, 1995), with revisions. Any agenda that tries to restore and amplify the classical meaning of politics and …

By Murray Bookchin | January 1st, 1997 | Article Archive | 0 Comments |

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm

For some two centuries, anarchism — a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas — developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and …

By Murray Bookchin | January 1st, 1995 | Article Archive | 0 Comments |

History, Civilization, and Progress: Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism

Rarely have the concepts that literally define the best of Western culture–its notions of a meaningful History, a universal Civilization, and the possibility of Progress–been called so radically into question …

By Murray Bookchin | February 15th, 1994 | Article Archive | 0 Comments |

To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936

This document can also be found at Spunk.org Preface These essays are less an analysis of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War of 1936-39 than an evocation of the greatest …

By Murray Bookchin | January 1st, 1994 | Article Archive | 0 Comments |