Bookchin

Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
... Chasm is a polemical essay written by Murray Bookchin and published as a book in 1995 ... Bookchin sets his social anarchism in opposition to individualist, primitivist and post-modern forms of anarchism (represented, he maintains, by such anarchist philosophers as John Zerzan and Hakim Bey) ... from anarchist writers like Bob Black and John Clark, who view Bookchin's polemic as misguided ...

Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Theory
... Bookchin's thesis is a more radical form of anarchism than that of Noam Chomsky while both concur that information technology, being controlled by the bourgeoisie, is not necessarily liberatory, Bookchin does not ... Postanarchist scholar Lewis Call compares Bookchin's language to that of Marcel Mauss, George Bataille and Herbert Marcuse, and notes that Bookchin anticipates the ...

Sociocybernetics - Issues and Challenges
... Perhaps the most basic challenges faced by sociocyberneticians are those that stem from Bookchin's work "The Ecology of Freedom and the emergence and decline of Hierarchy" ... Bookchin's argument is that what has often been described as "primitive" societies are best thought of as "organic" societies ... Yet Bookchin's claim, which appears to be thoroughly documented, is that the evolution of organic societies into our current, vastly destructive, hierarchical societies - over ...

Anarchism In The United States - Notable Anarchists - Murray Bookchin
... Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist/conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer ... A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology movement within libertarian socialist and ecological thought ... Bookchin was an anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation as well as partial deindustrialization and deurbanization of society ...

Bob Black - Biography
... a more or less point-by-point rebuttal of Murray Bookchin, "Social Anarchism An Unbridgable Chasm" (A.K ... Nightmares of Reason," a longer and more wide-ranging critique of Bookchin's anthropological and historical arguments, especially Bookchin's espousal of "liberta ... For Bookchin, democracy—the "direct democracy" of face-to-face assemblies of citizens—is anarchism ...