“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass… — 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… — 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'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for… — 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
The only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the… — 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
What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The relationship between the social and the individual requires special emphasis in our own time, for never before have personal relations become… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“In attempting to uphold scarcity, toil, poverty and subjugation against the growing potential for post-scarcity, leisure, abundance and freedom, capitalism increasingly emerges… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“If the ecological community is ever achieved in practice, social life will yield a sensitive development of human and natural diversity, falling… — 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
“The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need 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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