“Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.” KnowsWayShouldTryingTodayPoliticalOrderProcessDealsPartyPrinciplesCasesDangerMachinesWorkersLibertarianHazardsAccommodateInconsistencyBolsheviks Author:Murray Bookchin
“My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.” PeopleShouldMadeFeelingsEffortRightsDeny Author:Murray Bookchin
“Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.” ShouldWarEffortEffectsMilitaryMovementVietnamVietnam WarConscription Author:Murray Bookchin
“Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how an economy should be managed or how people should govern themselves. This is a very strong commitment on my part.” PeopleShouldIndividualStrongWishEconomyRightsCommitmentVery Strong 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 will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again, or, for that matter, in America, and tried to take away whatever dwindling civil liberties and human rights we retain, I would resist them with a club if I had to. But my admiration for pacifism as an outlook and a sensibility is enormous. I just find that it gets me into contradictions, as it often gets many pacifists into contradictory positions and strategies.” IfsShouldHumansMatterReasonAmericaSimpleLibertyRightsPositionStrategyHuman RightsClubsEnormousAriseContradictionAdmirationSensibilitySpainOutlookContradictoryCivil LibertiesPacifistPacifismFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Murray Bookchin
“We have to give people the freedom to choose lifestyles and material satisfactions that suit their needs, and we have to redefine need itself. We can't redefine need among ghetto people by telling them we should all give up our TV sets or automobiles: we have to tell them there's enough to go around, now let's talk about using it sensibly.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldEnoughMaterialsTvsGiving UpSatisfactionLifestyleSuitsAutomobileGhettoFreedom To Choose 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
“We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of tolerance for each other, as well as for other anarchist groups with which we may disagree. But we're not committed to toeing a line called anarchism; there are many different anarchisms.” PeopleShouldTryingWellsMayDifferentLinesExistenceGroupsCommittedToleranceDisagreeAnarchismAnarchist Author:Murray Bookchin
“Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.” ShouldTogetherMovingFormCertainResultsGroupsAreasAgreeCriticalGenuineResistanceDefeatedCrushedAnarchistNotableGet TogetherAffinityDemoralized Author:Murray Bookchin
