
Murray Bookchin
Philosopher, Author
1921 – 2006
Who was Murray Bookchin?
Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator and political theoretician. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin initiated the critical theory of social ecology within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology. In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with the increasingly apolitical lifestylism of the contemporary anarchist movement and stopped referring to himself as an anarchist. Instead, he founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism.
Bookchin was an anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society along ecological and democratic lines. His writings on libertarian municipalism, a theory of face-to-face, assembly democracy, had an influence on the Green movement and anti-capitalist direct action groups such as Reclaim the Streets.
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- Born
- Jan 14, 1921
New York City - Also known as
- Lewis Herber
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Burlington
- New York City
- Died
- Jul 30, 2006
Burlington
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on July 23, 2013
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