An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied… — 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… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“A rejection of the prevailing state of affairs accounts, I think, for the explosive growth of intuitive anarchism among young people today.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I have been criticized for pointing out that anarchism is likely to flourish more easily, at least in the western world, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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![“I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters. From that point on, I migrated by the 1950s into anarchism, increasingly emphasizing decentralization. Also, I made the all-important step…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60b/murray-bookchin-2587_anarchism_i-learned-that-trotskyism-were-no-differ_1094904.jpg)
![“[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 capitalism' and 'free trade.' This movement never created the word: it appropriated it from the anarchist movement of the…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1e/murray-bookchin-2587_free-trade_the-term-libertarian-itself-to-be-sure-r_144681.jpg)
![“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals and gays (the list, in fact, is considerable) — society will be riddled by domination even in a socialistic ‘classless’ and…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e4/murray-bookchin-2587_children_w-ithout-changing-the-most-molecular-rel_189100.jpg)