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
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
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
When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists. — 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
I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other. — 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
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
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — 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 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
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
I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people. — 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 would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that the American people should defend themselves if any attempt is made to take over the government by coup d'etat,… — 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
I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"… — 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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