Introduction to Bookchin's Writings/Philosophy

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Anarchism and Social Ecology@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

What would you folks recommend as a good introduction to Murray Bookchin’s ideas?

I saw a post from a couple of months ago recommending Make Rojava Green Again by his daughter, but I think that’s focused on how it has been implemented in Rojava and based on Öcalan’s works, as well. I’d like something focused on Murray Bookchin’s writing, either by him or by someone else about his ideas.

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Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.

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People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.

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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

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The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution…

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Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.

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