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“I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.”

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Murray Bookchin was an American author, philosopher, and social theorist known for his work in social ecology and anarchism. His most famous book, 'The Ecology of Freedom', explores the relationship between ecology and social theory. more

“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.”

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“My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.”

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“I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.”

People Ifs Knows Can Do One Thing Conscious Educate Anarchism

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“This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.”

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Author:Saint Peter

“In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar as this was not strengthened organizationally and intellectually by a very effective, powerful infrastructure, then what happens is the movement becomes dissipated.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

“I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.”

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