I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying 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 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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![“[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)
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