Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be… — 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
Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity… — 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… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that the American people should defend themselves if any attempt is made to take over the government by coup d'etat,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We have to give people the freedom to choose lifestyles and material satisfactions that suit their needs, and we have to redefine… — 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
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — 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
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
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
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
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
“[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
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
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
“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
“[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
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
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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