In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — 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
“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows,… — 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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![“[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)
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