The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green'… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how an economy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
“Finally, “industrial society,” to use a genteel euphemism for capitalism, has also become an easy explanation for the environmental ills that afflict our time.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
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