Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition
* Thesis: Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971. By Aaron David Hyams. The University of Montana, Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 446. (2011)
URL = https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/446
Summary
"Murray Bookchin was an American revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important part of the schismatic Left, a loose conglomeration of Marxist and Materialists who were both anti-Liberal and anti-Soviet. Bookchin worked with Weber until the latter‘s death in 1959. The two men formed a powerful intellectual and personal relationship that influenced Bookchin‘s career well into the 1960s. After Weber‘s death, Bookchin became a controversial and eclectic anarchist theorist. He developed Social Ecology, a comprehensive critique of advanced industrial capitalism that fused classical Anarchism with Neo-Marxist theory and British ecological theory. By the 1970s, Social Ecology had evolved into a standalone school of thought that became a guiding influence for the American Environmental Movement and bioregionalism."
Contents
- Chapter 1: The Old Left and the Origins of Social Ecology 1921-1959 6
- Chapter 2: Social Ecology (1962-1969) 30
- Chapter 3: Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1964-1971) 54
- Chapter 4: 1969