“My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly very gifted ones who can turn out periodicals and do very effective public work, and their tendency to just pick up and take off is a liability.” ThinkingFeelingsTurnsTermPicksTendenciesGiftedAnarchistLiability Author:Murray Bookchin
“What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these traditions may be, on the American libertarian tradition. I don't mean right-wing libertarianism obviously.” MayMeanCharacterTraditionWeakWingsLibertarianDevelopingRelyLibertarianismRight WingRadicalism Author:Murray Bookchin
“I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to the advantage of the big corporations, but none-the-less has very radical implications. The idea of a people that exercises a great deal of federalist or confederalist control, the ideal of a grass-roots type of democracy, the idea of the freedom of the individual which is not to get lost in the mazes of anarcho-egotism à la Stirner, or for that matter right-wing libertarianism.” PeopleIdeasMatterBigsGovernmentAmericaUsedIndividualLostDealsTalkingDemocracyTypeExerciseAdvantageIdealsRootsWingsRadicalCorporationsGrassLibertarianismEgotismImplicationsRight WingMazesFederalistBig Corporations Author:Murray Bookchin
“I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.” FeelsRealAmericaOpportunityRevolutionReal ThingsAmerican RevolutionNorth America Author:Murray Bookchin
“I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.” ThinkingWantTermRevolutionPeterRussian Revolution Author:Murray Bookchin
“Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?” LordMouthsGood And Bad Author:Jeremiah
“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
“I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.” PeopleThinkingImportantViewsAnarchist 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
“My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.” PeopleThinkingWritingInterestViewsRight NowImpactVariousPublish Author:Murray Bookchin
