Murray Bookchin - Böcker

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left po...

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A modern anarchist classic. Bookchin argues that material scarcity need no longer plague human history. Through the dissolution of hierarchical relations, social and cultural potentials can now be fulfilled in our post-scarcity era.

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Presents a synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory to trace society's conflicting legacies of freedom and domination, from the emergence of human culture to global capitalism. This title suggests that the very notion of...

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On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the ';October Revolution', where the Bolsheviks seized control of a popular uprising, there can still be found those who celebrate the events as a victory of ';workers control'. Ida Mett's account was among t...

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Upon their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, famous anarchist writers and activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were greeted like heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia. Berkman described it as "e;the most...

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Originally published in 1962, Our Synthetic Environment explores the negative effects that chemicals and other toxins in the environment have on human health. From the degradation of our food and soil due to industrial agricultural methods, to how...

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From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left po...

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Bookchin wrote Our Synthetic Environment under the pseudonym Lewis Herber. This was one of the first books of the modern period in which an author espoused an ecological and environmentalist worldview. It predates Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Ca...

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In this far-reaching work, social ecologist and historian Murray Bookchin takes the reader on a voyage through the evolution of the city. Cities are not just monumental social and political facts, they are tremendous ecological facts as well. Far ...

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What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the fu...

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According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies. Drawing on rich traditi...

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Murray Bookchin's frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmentalism. The four essays that comprise it share the view that, as he puts it, ';our ideas and our practic...

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A long-awaited new edition of this seminal history of Spanish anarchism, with a new preface by the author. "The Spanish Anarchists" traces the movement's checkered but steady growth from the stirring visit of the Italian anarchist Fanell...

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Argues that the environmental crisis has not been caused by overpopulation or humanity's genetic make-up. Instead, this book contends that the environmental movement must face social causes such as patriarchy, racism, a capitalistic economy, and a...

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Murray Bookchin has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the 1930s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in New York City and engaged in support work for those fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Now, for the firs...

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This work asks - and attempts to answer - several questions that attract Leftists today, such as: will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? It should appeal to radicals in the postmodern ...

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In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930s in the context of revolutionary worker's movements of the pre-World War II era. These articles describe, analyze, and...

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Mehr als 40 Jahre lang entwickelte Murray Bookchin seine Ideen über Kommunalismus, libertäre Ökologie und direkte Demokratie und brachte sie in die Politik der Neuen Linken ein.Seine Schriften beeinflussten zahlreiche politische DenkerInnen und So...

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