Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of… — 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
Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to… — 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
![“Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy of the left, and I feel much closer, ideologically, to such individuals than I do to the totalitarian liberals and Marxist-Leninists of…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e0f/murray-bookchin-2587_america_whether-they-left-in-america-are-anarcho_1465135.png)
