Government Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 -…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Murray Bookchin

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Murray Bookchin