Quotes by Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin

[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you’re going to have a police State.

Military

Police

Support

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Anarchist

Practice

Principles

Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

Breathing

Green

Growth

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it’s socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation… And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

Capitalist Economy

Feelings

People

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Eye

Long

Technology

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

Admire

Enough

People

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don’t mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

Mean

Recovery

Self

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

Believe

Communist

Libertarian

I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.

Agree To Disagree

Believe

Fighting

I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it – and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left – is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It’s becoming the real right in the United States.

Believe

Real

Today

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Quotes by Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin

[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you’re going to have a police State.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.

I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it – and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left – is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It’s becoming the real right in the United States.

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