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Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement. Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two do…
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Born 14 January 1921 · Died 30 July 2006 · Q315910
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Przed wiekiem niedobór trzeba było przetrwać, obecnie niedobór jest narzucany – oto rola państwa w naszych czasach.
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2023· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Libcom: Ecology and Revolutionary Thought Audiobook - Murray Bookchin
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2017· 1 entry
Libcom: The Murray Bookchin Reader
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2016· 1 entry
The Vancouver Sun: Books: Ecologist Murray Bookchin predicted climate change 50 years ago
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2014· 1 entry
The cantons of Rojava, in Syrian Kurdistan, federated into autonomous municipalities, adopting a social contract which established a decentralized non-hierarchical society, based on principles of direct democracy, femini
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2006· 11 entries
The Nation: Murray Bookchin
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Reason: Murray Bookchin, RIP
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Died 2006-07-30.
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At his home in Burlington, at the age of 85
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“Przed wiekiem niedobór trzeba było przetrwać, obecnie niedobór jest narzucany – oto rola państwa w naszych czasach.”
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“Wolne społeczeństwo może być osiągnięte tylko w wyniku wolnościowej rewolucji.”
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“Sens niemocy zależy od tłumów anonimowych jednostek.”
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“Przestrzeń metropolii nie tworzy ani uczucia grozy, które dawały aleje miast barokowych, ani (…) uczucia spokoju, wywoływanego przez średniowieczne miasta (jak np. Norymberga). Kreuje ona uczucie braku znaczenia.”
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The PKK hailed the American thinker as "one of the greatest social scientists of the 20th century", and vowed to put his theory into practice
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“Nasz wiek ma wyjątkowy charakter, po raz pierwszy pojawiła się szansa na rewolucję powszechną – całkowitą i totalną. Społeczeństwo burżuazyjne jedno osiągnęło na pewno – zrewolucjonizowało środki produkcji na skalę niespotykaną dotąd w historii.”
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“Original: «The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
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1999· 1 entry
Describing himself in 2002 as a "communalist" in a major essay elaborating his late-life views, called "The Communalist Project"
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1995· 1 entry
Bookchin lamented the decline of American anarchism into primitivism, anti-technologism, neo-Situationism, individual self-expression, and "ad hoc adventurism," at the expense of forming a social movement
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1988· 1 entry
Bookchin and Howie Hawkins founded the Left Green Network "as a radical alternative to U
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1987· 1 entry
Bookchin began a collaboration with Janet Biehl that would last until his death in 2006
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1980· 2 entries
Bookchin co-established the New England Anarchist Conference (NEAC) to organize the anarchist movement in the United States
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Bookchin used the term "libertarian municipalism" to describe a libertarian socialist system in which institutions of directly democratic assemblies would oppose and replace the state with a confederation of free municip
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1977· 1 entry
Published The Spanish Anarchists, a history of the Spanish anarchist movement up to the revolution of 1936
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1974· 2 entries
And the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) soon thereafter, of which he became the director
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Was hired by Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey, where he quickly became a full professor
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1971· 1 entry
Moved to Burlington, Vermont, with a group of friends, to put into practice his ideas of decentralization
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1968· 1 entry
Founded another group that published the influential Anarchos magazine, which published that and other innovative essays on post-scarcity and sustainable technologies such as solar and wind energy, and on decentraliza
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1964· 1 entry
Bookchin joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and protested racism at the 1964 World's Fair
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1962· 1 entry
A few months before Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring
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1958· 1 entry
Bookchin defined himself as an anarchist, seeing parallels between anarchism and environmentalism
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1952· 1 entry
“The Problem of Chemicals in Food”
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1949· 1 entry
While speaking to a Zionist youth organization at City College, Bookchin met a mathematics student, Beatrice Appelstein, whom he married in 1951
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1930· 1 entry
Joined the Young Pioneers of America, the Communist youth organization (for children 9 to 14) and the Young Communist League (for youths) in 1935
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1921· 2 entries
Born 1921-01-14.
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In New York City to Nathan Bookchin (born Nacham Wisotsky) and his first wife, Rose (Kalusky) Bookchin, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire
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