Murray Bookchin Interview

A short bit from Murray Bookchin from the 1981 documentary Anarchism in America.

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• workers

[FA8T]

I think Bookchin was largely disallusioned with what he called lifestyle anarchism, he wrote a brilliant essay on it called social anarchism vs lifestyle anarchism. It is important to maintain that he never lost his libertarian ethos and was an anti-statist to the end. In a strange way he was more libertarian than most anarchists who unfortunately end up cultish and insulated.

[Anarkokommunist]

R.I.P. Bookchin!

[MillionthUsername]

This obsession with "exploitation" and "hierarchy" is ridiculous and creepy. The concept of freedom is pushed beyond the social ethical realm and into the familial and personal. It is antithetical to any genuine freedom movement because it puts forward a very peculiar ideal of man and society which simply does not correspond to reality. You sound like a nut who is at war with every aspect of society. What a waste of time.

[Telescopemaker]

As his student in 1975, I must say this is a good summary of his thinking. I left this philosophy behind many years ago. Barak Hussein Obama however still agrees with Murray.

[NosdrahcirBocaj]

The advent of social networking provides the revolutionary potential the workers movement had preventions in educating and organizing, on an international scale.

[boozec]

wise words.

[EastofModernity]

This is one of the most beautiful and cogent segments of this fascinating, too short, documentary. In this segment, Bookchin lays out the best of anarchism, what inspires about anarchism, and the pitfalls of our prior workers' movement and how the workers themselves have been co-opted into our hierarchical structures - schools, factories, marriages [gender oppression], obedience, the industrial routine.

[LaGranLibertaria]

Una natura riverita è una natura separata dal suo posto nellumanità, nel senso che anche la ragione umana è unespressione della natura resa auto-consapevole, di una natura che trova la sua voce in una delle sue creazioni. Non siamo solo noi a dover avere il nostro posto nella natura; anche la natura deve avere il suo posto in noi, in una società ecologica e in unetica fondata sul ruolo catalizzatore dellumanità nellevoluzione naturale M.Bookchin

[noiseklinik]

@xamogelare you should better read cornelius castoriadis to my opinion his critique is the most radical in nowadays...

[danelutti07]

Moving Forward is a great book on participatory economics.

[adzug]

he was just getting to the good part. is there more?

[theolux1]

a great thinker