(1990), Renewing the Earth: The Promise of Social Ecology.

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm (1997).

'The rights of individual workers must be seen as part of a dualistic struggle between the atavistic desires of the unrealised soul and the animistic death-tendencies of loosely collected societal functions.'.

One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.'

' Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree.

Susan Brown.īookchin is the author of many works, including Post Scarcity Anarchism and The Ecology of Freedom. In his essay Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, Bookchin directed criticism at currents of anarchism which he perceived to be promoting anti-rationalism or excessive individualism, e.g.

His idea of Libertarian Municipalism has had an influence on the Green Movement. He was influential on the anti-globalization movement. At the same time, he co-founded, in 1971, the Institute for Social Ecology at Goddard College in Vermont.īookchin remained a radical anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society. This led to a tenured position at Ramapo State College in Mahwah, NJ. He began teaching in the late 1960s at the Free University, a counter-cultural 1960s-era Manhattan-based institution. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Bookchin worked in a number of working class situations â€” including a stint as a railroad stevedore.

In the 1960s he was a member of the Libertarian League. In some circles he became known for his ability to deliver devastating criticisms of Marxist ideology using conventional Marxist language. In adolescence he gravitated towards Trotskyism, then gradually became disillusioned with the coercion he saw as inherent in conventional Marxism-Leninism. He worked in factories and became an organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He was born in New York City to the Russian Jewish immigrants Nathan Bookchin and Rose (Kaluskaya) Bookchin and grew up as a self-described 'red-diaper baby', imbued with Marxist ideology from his youth.

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