“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my… — 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
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to… — 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… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy… — 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
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my… — 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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