In this clip, Murray Bookchin is speaking to a crowd of anarcho-capitalists and other libertarians at a Libertarian Party Conference. Karl Hess is sitting next to Bookchin at the table.
Anarchism in America http://alexpeak.com/art/films/aia/ (15 January 1983)
Kontext: The basic problem I really have is that whenever I meet leftists in the socialist and Marxist movements, I'm called a petit-bourgeois individualist. [audience laughs] I'm supposed to shrink after this— Usually I'm called petit-bourgeois individualist by students, and by academicians, who’ve never done a days work life [sic] in their entire biography, whereas I have spent years in factories and the trade unions, in foundries and auto plants. So after I have to swallow the word petit-bourgeois, I don't mind the word individualist at all!I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment—individual liberty. That’s what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.And when I normally encounter my so-called colleagues on the left—socialists, Marxists, communists—they tell me that, after the revolution, they're gonna shoot me. [audience laughs, Murray nods] That is said with unusual consistency. They're gonna stand me and Karl up against the wall and get rid of us real fast; I feel much safer in your company. [audience laughs and applauds]
Murray Bookchin: Citáty anglicky
Anarchism in America http://alexpeak.com/art/films/aia/ (15 January 1983)
Kontext: Almost anyone, I suppose, can call himself or herself an anarchist, if he or she believed that the society could be managed without the state. And by the state—I don't mean the absence of any institutions, the absence of any form of social organisation—the state really refers to a professional apparatus of people who are set aside to manage society, to preëmpt the control of society from the people. So that would include the military, judges, politicians, representatives who are paid for the express purpose of legislating, and then an executive body that is also set aside from society. So anarchists generally believe that, whether as groups or individuals, people should directly run society.
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Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965).
Anarchism in America http://alexpeak.com/art/films/aia/ (15 January 1983)
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
"Listen, Marxist!" (May 1969); also available in Post Scarcity Anarchism (1971).
Listen, Marxist!
Listen, Marxist!
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), introduction to the First Edition (p. vii of the third edition, 2004)
Remaking Society (1990).
Page 26 of the 1991 reprint
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
Toward an Ecological Society (1980).
“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
Page 107 of the 2005 reprint.
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
Listen, Marxist!
“Directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher.”
Anarchism in America http://alexpeak.com/art/films/aia/ (15 January 1983)
“Reason Interview: Murray Bookchin: A controversial anarchist talks about government, the Libertarian Party, Ayn Rand, and the evolution of his own ideas” http://reason.com/archives/1979/10/01/interview-with-murray-bookchin/1, Leslee J. Newman, Reason magazine, (October 1979) pp. 34-39.