“I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government.” PeopleThinkingBelieveGovernmentRolesStudyBenefitsLogicMechanismUnlimitedLimited Government Author:Murray Bookchin
“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.” KnowsBelieveRealStatesTodayLeftUnitedUnited StatesBecomingDenyFamiliarBelieve In MeTotalitarianismAuthoritarianism Author:Murray Bookchin
“Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy of the left, and I feel much closer, ideologically, to such individuals than I do to the totalitarian liberals and Marxist-Leninists of today.” FeelsBelieveRealTodayAmericaIndividualLeftRegardLibertarianLegacyEnterpriseCommunistMarxistFree Enterprise Author:Murray Bookchin
“There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in their periodicals; but I write very militantly that I regard Marxism as a very subtle form of what I would call the totalitarian ideology - all the more subtle because it professes to advance the notions of freedom.” PeopleWritingBelieveWellsMeanFormCoursesI BelieveRegardNotionLibertarianIdeologySubtleMarxismMarxist Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe in a libertarian communist society.” BelieveI BelieveI Believe InLibertarianCommunist Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for example, to operate on the basis of a market economy of the kind that you describe - would be unforgivable, and I would oppose the practices of such a society as militantly as I think any reader of your publication would.” ThinkingBelieveKindWould BeI BelieveCommunityPracticeEconomyRightsExampleReaderBasesLibertarianCommunistPublicationMarket EconomyUnforgivable Author:Murray Bookchin
“I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what they want to do. The all-important thing is that they be free to make that decision and that they do not stand in the way of communities that wish to make other decisions.” PeopleWayWantBelieveImportantI BelieveWishCommunityDecisionConceptsCapitalismImportant ThingsLibertarianQuarrels Author:Murray Bookchin
“The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.” BelieveMayDoeStatesProblemDiesGrowsRolesConcentrationFree MarketTotalitarianismRivalryCorporatism Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that the American people should defend themselves if any attempt is made to take over the government by coup d'etat, whether by the military or the Marxists or any people who profess to be anarchists.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveMadeGovernmentI BelieveMilitaryAnarchistMarxistCoups Author:Murray Bookchin
“I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.” IfsBelieveWellsI BelieveViolencePlanetsLibertarianIntensePacifistHumanistic Author:Murray Bookchin
“I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.” WorldBelieveHumansWellsSelfI BelieveNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalDestinyViolenceBalanceConsciousHarmonyHuman LifeOur DestinyNatural WorldSelf ConsciousDetestAnimal LifeLoving Relationships Author:Murray Bookchin
“Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.” PeopleBelieveKindIdeasSelfFeelingsInterestExistenceEconomyCapitalismCompetitionMythMythologyVery StrongTechnologicalSelf InterestEgotismRivalryBarbarismMarket EconomyStingy Author:Murray Bookchin
“I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very destructive to anarchism. If you are absorbed by that commodity world then you're not going to move toward any radical positions, you're going to move toward a stance of protectiveness.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveMovingImpossiblePositionContraryRadicalDestructiveCommodityAnarchismAnarchistStanceAffluenceProtectiveness Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.” BelieveI BelieveIdealsEthicalFavourAnarchism Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that it's terribly important to have a movement that is spiritual, not in the supernatural sense, but in the sense of German Geist, spirit, which combines the idea of mind together with feeling, together with intuition.” MindBelieveImportantIdeasFeelingsTogetherSpiritualSpiritI BelieveMovementIntuition Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.” ShouldBelieveFightingI BelieveAgreeDisagreeAnarchistAgree To Disagree Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we should also develop common projects that produce a lived community of relationships.” IfsShouldBelieveBeliefI BelieveCommunityCommonProduceProjectsCoherenceCommonality Author:Murray Bookchin
“I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneFactsTodayTogetherOrderMassIdealsDon't BelieveCriticalCommitProductiveAppropriateGiftedAnarchistMistrustCritical MassProductive Work Author:Murray Bookchin
