“...one of the great tasks of ecological thinking will be to develop an ecological civicism that restores the organic bonds of community without reverting to the archaic blood-tie at one extreme or the totalitarian "folk philosophy" of fascism at the other.” CommunityHeritageFascismEcologyEcologicalFolkCivicism Book:Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship Source: Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship
“The word "moral" must be repeated—not as rhetoric to match the claims of reaction but as the felt spiritual underpinnings of a new social vision. It must be repeated not as part of a patronizing sermon but as a living practice that people incorporate into their personal lives and their communities. The vacuity and triviality of life today must be filled precisely by those visionary ideals that sustain the human side of life as well as its material side, or else the coordinates by which the future should be guided will totally disappear in that commodity-oriented world we call the "marketplace of ideas." The more serious indecency of this "marketplace" is that these ideals will be turned into objects—mere commodities—that will lack even the value of things we need to sustain us. They will become the mere ornaments needed to garnish an inherently anti-human and anti-ecological society that threatens to undermine moral integrity as such and the simple social amenities that foster human intercourse.” HumanitySpiritualityCommunityMoralityEcologyPolitical System Book:Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship Source: Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship
“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 only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the imagery of the proletarian vanguard, or proletarian hegemony - has been the community.” KnowsHas BeensForceCommunityMovementWorkersConclusionRevolutionaryImageryHegemonyVanguard Author:Murray Bookchin
“The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage in discussion groups that are open to a community, to discuss and develop their ideas and to develop networks.” ImportantBookIdeasFormLiteratureCan DoCommunityGroupsImportant ThingsDiscussionPropagandaEducateMachineryAnarchist Author:Murray Bookchin
“In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it's terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America.” ThinkingImportantMomentsAmericaCommunityCasesIssuesHappeningsInstitutionsFeministNuclearAnarchistEcologicalNorth AmericaArticulationCommunalism Author:Murray Bookchin
“I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community of ideas and ultimately a common sense of responsibilities and commitments.” KnowsHas BeensIdeasCommunityCommonResponsibilityCommitmentCommon SenseIdeologyMarxismAnarchismCritiqueBourgeoisSense Of Responsibility 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
