Quick Facts About Murray Bookchin
- Born
- January 14, 1921
- Died
- July 30, 2006
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- Post-scarcity anarchism
- Known for
- The Ecology of Freedom, Our Synthetic Environment, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, The Spanish Anarchists
- Spouse
- Beatrice Bookchin
About Murray Bookchin
He was also an author, orator, and historian, writing about two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and social ecology. His notable titles include Our Synthetic Environment (1962), Post‑Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982) and Urbanization Without Cities (1987). Influenced by Hegel, Marx, and Kropotkin, he helped shape the early environmental movement. In the late 1990s he grew dissatisfied with what he saw as apolitical “lifestylism” among anarchists, stopped calling himself an anarchist, and founded a libertarian socialist ideology called communalism that tries to blend Marxist, syndicalist, and anarchist ideas.
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