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# From Bookchin to Miyazaki, by way of Le Guin
- URL: https://murray-bookchin.ghost.io/news/from-bookchin-to-miyazaki-by-way-of-le-guin/
- Published: 2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The line from social ecology runs through Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchist utopias straight into the forests of Studio Ghibli.
- Author: Debbie Bookchin
- Tags: Culture, #Import 2026-07-23 03:24

*Princess Mononoke* and Nausicaä stage the argument at the heart of social ecology: the war on the natural world begins as the domination of human by human. Hayao Miyazaki has long pointed to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books as formative — he sought the rights to adapt them as far back as the early 1980s.,Le Guin, in turn, read Bookchin closely. The anarchist ecology of *The Dispossessed* grew out of the ideas he had been publishing since the 1960s, and four decades later she wrote the foreword to *The Next Revolution*, introducing his communalism to a new generation of readers.,It is a thread worth pulling: from a Bronx street corner to Anarres to the Sea of Decay, the same wager — that a free society and a living planet stand or fall together.