Pacific Street Films Murray Bookchin 2004

Last interview with Murray Bookchin twenty years after original filming for Pacific Street Films, ANARCHISM IN AMERICA.

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[Darganot]

Thank you so much for this. I had no idea there was any more footage like this of him. Hope you don't mind me throwing up my favorite part of his from "Anarchism in America". If you would, check out my other vids too.

Oh Ron Paul '08 and such :)

[pacfilm]

No problem... The more of Murray, the better.

[pacfilm]

Yes, you're right. The same people at Pacific St. Films, producers of Anarchism in America, arranged the interview. The entire uncut piece runs about 90 minutes.

Currently, Pacific Street is looking for a way to distribute the interview more or less in its entirety.

[sasvari]

1 interview with bookchin.

available.

yes.

: )

[pacfilm]

This is a short segment from a very long interview with Murray filmed in Summer 2004.

[comradepinko]

A brilliant man, 85 years was too short for him.

[UrbanPirateMedia]

I agree somewhat with your critique, however, I think his point with the town meeting is to actually create more of a revolutionary consciousness in people. To create institutions based on libertarian socialist principles that can then expand. It's really about how to begin organizing. We can either sit around and wait for a spontaneous revolution, or we can work towards one with people that are familiar with the kinds of institutions that would exist in a libertarian socialist society.

[agapeiron]

@UrbanPirateMedia Not just revolutionary consciousness though; let's also recall that all the "class struggle anarchist" modes of self-management are rooted in the notion of localized institutions of direct democracy. Township politics-- "ward republics" as Jefferson called it-- would be rather impotent without workers' control of the means of production and market abolitionism. Via the local delegation of democratic power to the regional, and to the national, anarchism is federalist.

[agapeiron]

@RenonKoral When you look at Crimethinc, anarcho-primitivists, "post-left" anarchists and the various right wing ideological groupings (capitalists, neo-fascists) trying to claim the name of anarchism, can you really blame Murray for declaring himself a libertarian municipalist?

[SteelCityEcologist]

@SteelCityEcologist

Don't quote me on Social Ecology and Moral Naturalism, though. I have never read any work by Bookchin in which explicitly states his support for Moral Naturalism or virtue ethics, although he does like Aristotle quite a bit. It's just that in my studies of Moral Naturalism and Social Ecology I see somewhat similar concepts.

[SteelCityEcologist]

@RenonKoral

To add to Renon's post:

We also have to remember that Communalism held as (part of) its theoretical foundations the concept of Social Ecology. This provides Communalism with justified rejection of racism on an ethical basis (from my understanding, similar to Moral Naturalism, though not necessarily resulting in virtue ethics/neo-Aristotelianism) and a biological basis (interdependence, diversity and mutualism in ecosystems).

[DaSkinnyApe]

@RenonKoral wouldn't Communalism break society into small ethnical groups, and eventually turn out to be one of the most racist movemets?

[pacfilm]

@RenonKoral I think you're absolutely correct. However, even towards the end Bookchin was committed to the "ideal;" however, as these things go, there's always the doctrinal, philosophical and ego issues that color one's thinking.

[peeklip]

arrrgggh..... where's the rest of this?

[peeklip]

@satarrant

I agree, highly frustrating...

[anarksee]

Rest in Peace,comrade Bookchin!!!

[MANFATHERS]

Is that George Costanza's dad?