For decades, Murray Bookchin argued that the ecological crisis is ultimately a social crisis — that a society free of domination could exist in balance with the rest of the natural world. This site exists to help carry this message forward and is maintained by his family via the Murray Bookchin Legacy Foundation.
Our attempt to dominate non-human nature stems from the domination of human by human — no solution holds until domination is undone.
Wikipedia primer ↗A politics of the city: face-to-face citizens' assemblies, confederated across regions, patiently reclaiming public life from the state and the market.
Wikipedia primer ↗His mature synthesis — a rational, democratic, ecological society beyond both Marxism and anarchism, built from the municipality up.
Wikipedia primer ↗If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
1982 · Cheshire Books · Reissued — Black Rose Books, 1991 · Latest edition — AK Press, 2005
The magnum opus: the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy, and the legacy of freedom set against it.
1996 · Cassell
Popular movements in the revolutionary era — from the Peasant Wars through 1848.
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For decades, Murray Bookchin argued that the ecological crisis is ultimately a social crisis — that a society free of domination could exist in balance with the rest of the natural world. This site exists to help carry this message forward and is maintained by his family via the Murray Bookchin Legacy Foundation.
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Three threads toward freedom
1964 — 2006
Social Ecology
Our attempt to dominate non-human nature stems from the domination of human by human — no solution holds until domination is undone.
Libertarian Municipalism
A politics of the city: face-to-face citizens' assemblies, confederated across regions, patiently reclaiming public life from the state and the market.
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His mature synthesis — a rational, democratic, ecological society beyond both Marxism and anarchism, built from the municipality up.
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
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