The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism (CH. 1)
Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology edited by David Macauley, Reviewed by Janet Biehl
The Murray Bookchin Reader: Introduction
The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism (Keynote speech to the International Conference on the Politics of Social Ecology)
For two centuries social revolutionaries have cherished the ideal of the “Commune of communes” as part of their vision of a future liberatory society. Ever since the Great French Revolution of 1789, they have dreamed of creating decentralized, stateless, and collectively managed “communes,” joined together in confederations of free municipalities. All three of the major nineteenth-century anarchist thinkers–Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin–called for a “federation of communes” for an anarchist society. The Paris Commune, in its manifesto to the French people of April 19, 1871–which was greatly influenced by federalist anarchism–called for “communal autonomy [to be] extended to every township […]
[Introduction] Ecofacism: Lessons From the German Experince
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Theses on Social Ecology and Deep Ecology
From Movement to Parliamentary Party: Notes on Several European Green Movements
This article was originally published in Society and Nature 3 (1993). It is a revised synthesis of “Western European Greens: Movement or Parliamentary Party?” Green Perspectives 19 (Feb. 1990); “Farewell to the German Greens,” Green Perspectives 23 (Jun. 1991); and “U.K. Greens Face the Future,” Regeneration 4 (Fall 1992). Thanks to Murray Bookchin for his constructive criticism and comments.
Among many Greens in the United States, which has a winner-take-all electoral system, it is fashionable to praise European Green parliamentary successes and envy the systems of proportional representation that have allowed Greens to be catapulted into positions […]
A Critique of the Draft Program of the Left Green Network
Editors’ note: The Left Green Network is in the process of writing, developing, and debating its program. The draft proposal for the program was published in the April/May 1991 issue of Left Green Notes, number 7. The following critique was written in response to that program. The program will be debated […]