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> [“We have permitted cynical political reactionaries and the spokesmen of large corporations to pre-empt these basic libertarian American ideals. We have permitted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/we-have-permitted-cynical-political-reactionaries-and-the-spokesmen/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

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> [ I am concerned that people who admire \[Ayn\] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-am-concerned-that-people-who-admire-ayn-rand-are-not-often-critical/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

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> [ \[Ayn\] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/ayn-rand-accepts-that-when-she-supports-military-conscription-even/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

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> [Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/realistically-speaking-ayn-rand-should-not-have-opposed-the-antidraft/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

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## Other authors on Ayn Rand

## More by Murray Bookchin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-know-one-thing-that-you-can-do-a-lot-of-things-but-if-you-don-t/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-regard-individuality-as-the-most-precious-trait-we-have-because/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/in-the-60s-there-were-a-lot-of-things-which-were-anarchistic-may-june/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/capitalism-has-created-a-situation-called-scarcity-and-that-scarcity/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/you-see-something-very-important-is-happening-personality-is-being/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [ “\[The\] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/the-term-libertarian-itself-to-be-sure-raises-a-problem-notably-the/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how an economy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/wherever-people-defend-the-rights-of-the-individual-i-stand-with-them/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-m-convinced-more-than-ever-that-capitalism-with-its-technological/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/the-phrase-consumer-society-complements-the-description-of-the/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [I believe in a libertarian communist society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-believe-in-a-libertarian-communist-society/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [ “\[W\]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/w-ithout-changing-the-most-molecular-relationships-in-society-notably/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [ The most important thing \[anarchists\] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/the-most-important-thing-anarchists-can-do-is-educate-themselves/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/i-was-a-stalinist-in-the-30s-i-had-come-from-a-russian-revolutionary/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/capitalism-far-from-affording-privileges-to-the-middle-classes-tends/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

> [“Finally, “industrial society,” to use a genteel euphemism for capitalism, has also become an easy explanation for the environmental ills that afflict our time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/finally-industrial-society-to-use-a-genteel-euphemism-for-capitalism/)

[Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/)

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