{"title":"Murray Bookchin","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver a lifetime of involvement in radical, anti-capitalist politics, Murray Bookchin made important contributions to the New Left, anarchist, and ecological movements with his writings on the history of hierarchy, the potentials for decentralized production, and visions of cities liberated from the state and capital.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-ecology-of-freedom-the-emergence-and-dissolution-of-hierarchy","title":"The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this succinct formulation, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology, and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom, from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future. On a college syllabus or in an activist's backpack, this book is indispensable reading for anyone who's tired of living in a world where everything is an exploitable resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin, cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, was an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years. The author of numerous books and articles, he lived in Burlington, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175034368093,"sku":"9781904859260","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_335_ecolfree3_0.jpg?v=1654986933"},{"product_id":"1917-revolution-in-russia-and-its-aftermath","title":"1917: Revolution in Russia and its Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Russian Revolution's centenary year Black Rose Books presents a collection of three books by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, Alexander Berkman and Ida Mett that provide eyewitness accounts of its triumphs, disappointments and horrors. Following their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, Goldman and Berkman were greeted as heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia, with Berkman describing their arrival as the \"most sublime day of my life\". Why then, barely two years later, did both decide to leave Russia for good? Their books \u003cem\u003eMy Disillusionment in Russia \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, printed here together for the first time, trace their shared frustration with the revolution's descent from an authentic people's movement to a spectacle of Bolshevik authoritarian violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir works are accompanied by Ida Mett's \u003cem\u003eKronstadt Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e, a harrowing account of the Red Army's brutal repression at Kronstadt introduced and contextualised by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e. There is also an introductory poem by Dan Georgakas and chapter each by Cambridge sociologist Thomas Jeffrey Miley and publisher and activist Dimitri Roussopoulos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Emma Goldman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Alexander Berkman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ida Mett\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Murray Bookchin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-55164-662-6\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 422 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Black Rose Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175318466653,"sku":"9781551646626","price":29.98,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/1917.jpg?v=1654988516"},{"product_id":"anarchism-a-documentary-history-of-libertarian-ideas-volume-two","title":"Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume Two","description":"\u003cp\u003eContinuing where Volume One left off, this anthology of anarchist writings, broad in its geographical and intellectual scope, documents both continuity and change in anarchist ideas since the Spanish revolution and civil war. Topics covered include anti-capitalism and global justice movements, opposition to war, ecology and anarchism, the relevance of syndicalism, libertarian communism, anarcha-feminism, personal and sexual liberation, libertarian education, participatory democracy, direct action and affinity groups, technology and freedom, anthropology and anarchy,art and the utopian imagination, bureaucracy, state and empire, resistance and revolution, post-modernism, and philosophical anarchism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to English language material from England and North America, the book includes translations from Africa, India, China, Latin America, and Europe, much of which has never appeared before in English. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, \u003ca title=\"Murray Bookchin\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, George Woodcock, Marie Louise Berneri, Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Martin Buber, Paul Goodman, Carole Pateman, Colin Ward, Paul Feyerabend, Pierre Clastres, Chaia Heller, Ivan Illich, Daniel Guerin, Luce Fabbri and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Graham has been writing on the history of anarchist ideas and contemporary anarchist theory for over 20 years.In 2005, he published \u003cem\u003eAnarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism 300CE to 1939 \u003c\/em\u003e(Black Rose Books)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION: MAKING SENSE OF ANARCHISM by Davide Turcato\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1: ANTI-MILITARISM, WAR \u0026amp; REVOLUTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Herbert Read: The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Emma Goldman: The Individual, Society and the State (1940)\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Romande Anarchist Federation: Coming to Grips With War (1939)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Marie Louise Berneri: Constructive Policy versus Destructive War (1940-43)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jean Sauliere, Voline et. al.: Appeal to All Workers (1943)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Italian Anarchist Federation: Act for Yourselves (1945)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bulgarian Anarchist Manifesto (1945)\u003cbr\u003e 8. French Anarchist Federation: The Issues of the Day (1945)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Korean Anarchist Manifesto (1948)\u003cbr\u003e 10. International Anarchist Manifesto (1948)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Paul Goodman: Drawing the Line (1945)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Alex Comfort: Peace and Disobedience (1946)\u003cbr\u003e 13. Dwight Macdonald: The Root Is Man (1946)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2: THE WILL TO DREAM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Ethel Mannin:The Will to Dream (1944)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Marie Louis Berneri: Journey Through Utopia (1949)\u003cbr\u003e 16. Martin Buber: Paths in Utopia (1949)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Paul \u0026amp; Percival Goodman: Communities (1947)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Giancarlo de Carlo: Rebuilding Community (1948)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3: ART AND FREEDOM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. Herbert Read:The Freedom of the Artist (1943)\u003cbr\u003e 20. Alex Comfort: Art and Social Responsibility (1946)\u003cbr\u003e 21. Holley Cantine: Art: Play and Its Perversions (1947)\u003cbr\u003e 22. Paul-Émile Borduas: Global Refusal (1948)\u003cbr\u003e 23. André Breton: The Black Mirror of Anarchism (1952)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Julian Beck: Storming the Barricades (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 25. Living Theatre Declaration (1970)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4: RESISTING THE NATION STATE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e26. Alex Comfort:Authority and Delinquency (1950)\u003cbr\u003e 27. Geoffrey Ostergaard: The Managerial Revolution (1954)\u003cbr\u003e 28. Mohamed Saïl: The Kabyle Mind-Set (1951)\u003cbr\u003e 29. Maurice Fayolle: From Tunis to Casablanca (1954)\u003cbr\u003e 30. André Prudhommeaux: The Libertarians and Politics (1954)\u003cbr\u003e 31. Noir et Rouge: Refusing the Nation-State (1957-62)\u003cbr\u003e 32. Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakesh Narayan: From Socialism to Sarvodaya (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 33. Vernon Richards: Banning the Bomb (1958-59)\u003cbr\u003e 34. Nicolas Walter: Direct Action and the New Pacifism (1962)\u003cbr\u003e 35. Paul Goodman: \"Getting into Power\" (1962)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5: CREATING A COUNTER-CULTURE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e36. Herbert Read:Anarchism and Education (1944-47)\u003cbr\u003e 37. Paul Goodman: A Public Dream of Universal Disaster\u003cbr\u003e 38. L'Impulso: Resistance or Revolution (1950)\u003cbr\u003e 39. David Thoreau Wieck: The Realization of Freedom (1953)\u003cbr\u003e 40. David Dellinger: Communalism (1954)\u003cbr\u003e 41. A.J. Baker: Anarchism Without Ends (1960)\u003cbr\u003e 42: Gary Snyder: Buddhist Anarchism (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 43. Nicolas Walter: Anarchism and Religion (1991)\u003cbr\u003e 44. C. George Benello: Wasteland Culture (1967)\u003cbr\u003e 45. Louis Mercier Vega: Yesterday's Societies and Today's (1970)\u003cbr\u003e 46. Joel Spring: Liberating Education (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6: RESURGENT ANARCHISM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e47. Lain Diez:Towards a Systematization of Anarchist Thought (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 48. Murray Bookchin: Ecology and Anarchy (1965)\u003cbr\u003e 49. Daniel Guérin: Anarchism Reconsidered (1965-66)\u003cbr\u003e 50. The Provos: PROVOcation (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 51. The Cohn-Bendit Brothers: It Is for Yourself that You Make the Revolution(1968)\u003cbr\u003e 52. Jacobo Prince: Fighting for Freedom (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 53. Diego Abad de Santillán: Anarchism Without Adjectives (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 54. Nicolas Walter: About Anarchism (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 55. Noam Chomsky: Notes on Anarchism (1970)\u003cbr\u003e 56. Robert Paul Wolff: In Defence of Anarchism (1970)\u003cbr\u003e 57. Paul Goodman: Freedom and Autonomy (1972)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7: FORMS OF FREEDOM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e58. Philip Sansom:Syndicalism Restated (1951)\u003cbr\u003e 59. Benjamin Péret: The Factory Committee (1952)\u003cbr\u003e 60. Comunidad del Sur: The Production of Self-Management (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 61. Maurice Joyeaux: Self-Management, Syndicalism and Factory Councils (1973)\u003cbr\u003e 62. Murray Bookchin: The Forms of Freedom (1968)\u003cbr\u003e 63. Colin Ward: Anarchy as a Theory of Organization (1966-1973)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8: SOCIETY AGAINST STATE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e64. Pierre Clasters:Society Against the State (1974)\u003cbr\u003e 65. Michael Taylor: Anarchy, the State and Cooperation (1976)\u003cbr\u003e 66. Louis Mercier Vega: The Modern State (1970)\u003cbr\u003e 67. Nico Berti: The New Masters (1976)\u003cbr\u003e 68. Noam Chomsky: Intellectuals and the State (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e69. George Woodcock:The Tyranny of the Clock (1944)\u003cbr\u003e 70. Paul Goodman: Science and Technology (1960)\u003cbr\u003e 71. Paul Feyerabend: Against Method (1975)\u003cbr\u003e 72. Richard Kostelanetx: Technoanarchism (1968)\u003cbr\u003e 73. Ivan Illich: Political Inversion (1976)\u003cbr\u003e 74: Murray Bookchin: Ecotechnology and Ecocommunities (1976-82)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10: SEXUAL REVOLUTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e75. Marie Louise Berneri: Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution (1945)\u003cbr\u003e 76. Daniel Guérin: Sexual Liberation\u003cbr\u003e 77. Paul Goodman: The Politics of Being Queer (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 78. Peggy Kornegger: Anarchism: The Feminist Connection (1975)\u003cbr\u003e 79. Carol Ehrlich: Anarchism, Feminism and Situationism (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Robert Graham\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 78-1-55164-310-6\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 535 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Black Rose Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175323152477,"sku":"9781551643106","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/anarchism_v2_0.jpg?v=1654988550"},{"product_id":"enlightenment-and-ecology-the-legacy-of-murray-bookchin-in-the-21st-century","title":"Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era. Through tireless teaching, speaking, organizing, and writing, Bookchin presented a humanist vision of ecology based on community, direct democracy, and the better promises of the Enlightenment, showing how we could transform our society into one that is free and egalitarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnlightenment and Ecology\u003c\/em\u003e is an international collection of commemorative essays by scholars and activists who have each incorporated the ideas of social ecology into their own work. This book also examines how the Kurdish freedom movement is using the Bookchin’s utopian ideas. In a time of urgent need for radical change, these essays provide both precious historical lessons and a transformative road map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYavor Tarinski is independent researcher, activist and author. He participates in social movements around the Balkans, as well as in transnational organizations, dedicated to the production of grassroots knowledge. Author of the book \u003cem\u003eDirect Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality\u003c\/em\u003e (Durty Books 2019). Articles of his have been translated into 10 languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is crucial for everyone trying to understand what the social ecology movement in Europe is about and the influence it has had on the Left and on movements like Occupy, Indignados, the climate justice movement and the Yellow Vests movements in the twenty-first century. This anthology greatly sheds light not only on Bookchin’s ideas but also on the practices and actions of many different people and groups who have been inspired by those ideas.\" Rafa Grinfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreface by Yavor Tarinski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Yavor Tarinski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: Bookchin’s Theoretical Legacy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Unique Contribution of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e to Political Thought by Jean-François Filion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy by Yavor Tarinski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy by Janet Biehl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin and Radical Agriculture by Brian Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ecology of Urban Regeneration by Eirik Eiglad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Significance of the City for Social Ecology by Giorgos Papahristodoulou\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin: Bridging Intellectual Legacies by Jason Toney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCan Cyborgs Dream of Social Ecology by Nikos Vrantsis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn Connecting a New Scientific Economics with Social Ecology by Peter Piperkov\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReflections on \"Limits of the City\" by Kostas Papoulis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin's Legacy of Freedom by Ramazan Kaya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Re-organization of Society: or Eco-Anarchism by Georgi Konstantinov\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: Bookchin’s Influence on Political Practice Around the World \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookchin's journey to ancient and modern Greece by Stavros Karageorgakis and Niovi Hatzinikolaou\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin In Greece: The publication of his works and the impact of his ideas by Costas Despiniadis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin and contemporary Greek social movements: The influence of social ecology on democratic political discourse by Alexandros Schismenos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookchin's Influence on Ocalan and the PKK's Evolution by Hawzhin Azeez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookchin and the Kurdish movement in Turkey by Reco Akgün\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpreading Murray Bookchin’s ideas in Germany by Wolfgang Haug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMontreal and Murray Bookchin by Dimitri Roussopoulos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Athens to Cork: Collective Design as a Social Ecological Praxis of Community Building by Eve Olney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin In Flanders Fields (Belgium) by Roger Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSocial Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS—A Brief History) by Bob Spivey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Revolutionary Agenda Whose Time has Come: an Emerging Municipalist Wave in France? by Theo Rouhette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin in Italy by Selva Varengo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion by Yavor Tarinski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Yavor Tarinski\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-55164-709-8\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 236 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Black Rose Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175374336093,"sku":"9781551647098","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/tarinski_978-1-55164-709-8_enlightenment_and_ecology_470x_d9ea70b4-a0c6-4b54-b78d-55efbe4d13b9.jpg?v=1654988958"},{"product_id":"from-urbanization-to-cities-the-politics-of-democratic-municipalism","title":"From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Urbanization to Cities\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping history of the city, not as a destination for capitalist exchange and individual gratification but as a locus for directly democratic politics. Just as ecosystems rely on participation and mutualism, so must cities—and their citizens—rediscover these qualities, establishing harmonious and ethical social relations. Democratic municipalism is an emancipatory philosophy of self-determination, where politics becomes an everyday act in which ordinary people and local communities take the power of decision making into their own hands. From the Paris Commune to the Kurdish-led revolution in northeast Syria, democratic municipalism is a tool for wresting power from the nation-state, allowing capitalist urbanization to give way to humanly scaled, ecological, and egalitarian societies. Includes a new introduction by Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e (1921–2006) was an active voice in ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay, “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (1964), was one of the first to assert that capitalism’s grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/ecology-freedom-emergence-and-dissolution-hierarchy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ecology of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, among two dozen other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle is a PhD researcher in political and legal theory at UCLouvain in Belgium. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of direct democracy from a communalist perspective, specifically on social movements struggling for local self-government in France and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This carefully reworked edition introduces a new generation of readers to Murray Bookchin’s historically informed case for reclaiming cities as the front-line of participatory democracy and ecological renewal. Never has that case been more powerfully argued, or more pertinent to the challenges of our time.” David Wengrow, co-author, with David Graeber, of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/dawn-everything-new-history-humanity\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Bookchin gives us a useful history and a call for action.” \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The foremost Green philosopher of the age.” \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Murray Bookchin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849354387\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175394357341,"sku":"9781849354387","price":26.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/urbanization_to_cities_9781849354387_fc.jpg?v=1654989092"},{"product_id":"anarchism-marxism-and-the-future-of-the-left-interviews-and-essays-1993-1998","title":"Anarchism, Marxism, and the Future of the Left: Interviews and Essays, 1993-1998","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/murray-bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the 1930s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in New York City and engaged in support work for those fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, for the first time in book form, this volume presents a series of exciting and engaged interviews with, and essays from, the founder of social ecology.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis expansive collection ranges over, amongst others, Bookchin's account of his teenage years as a young Communist during the Great Depression, his experiences of the 1960s and reflections on that decade's lessons, his vision of a libertarian communist society, libertarian politics, the future of anarchism, and the unity of theory and practice. He goes on to assess the crisis of radicalism today and defends the need for a revolutionary Left. Finally, he states what is to be valued in both anarchism and Marxism in building such a Left and offers guidelines for forming a new revolutionary social movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40513703379037,"sku":"9781873176351","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/514i5gCCFxL.jpg?v=1665410649"},{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-social-ecology-essays-on-dialectical-naturalism","title":"The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"product-info-main product-details left-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"product attribute description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"value\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur ecological problems stem from our social problems. Here's a framework for understanding both.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Philosophy of Social Ecology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, they take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A useful corrective to simplistic thinking about the human predicament.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCanadian Book Review Annual\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Bookchin expands upon the concept of natural evolution and delivers it from the trap of mechanistic thinking.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImprint\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Bookchin addresses a different body of concerns: the need by the public for an ecologically creative sensibility toward the environment.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Géographie Appliquée\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/strong\u003e (1929–2006) was an active voice in ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay, “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (1964), was one of the first to assert that capitalism’s grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ecology of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, among two dozen other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTodd McGowan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of theory and film at the University of Vermont. 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The six essays that comprise it share the view that, as he puts it, “our ideas and our practice must be imbued with a deep sense of ethical commitment.” Whether he is critiquing the market economy, the state, or the idea—common to both capitalists and certain left materialists—that human beings are motivated solely by greed and self-interest, Bookchin ever reminds us of the ineffable values of freedom, self-consciousness, and social harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThough first published in 1986, Bookchin’s framework still applies. The moral relativism of the 1980s—the politics of lesser-evils and risk vs benefit calculations—has morphed into what we now refer to as “both-sidesism” and the risk vs benefit calculations of yesterday are the 100,000 acre burn scars seen throughout the American west today. Beyond moral relativism or moral absolutism is an ecologically based ethics—one that sees our selfhood, reason, and freedom as stemming from nature’s variety and resilience. Bookchin’s social ecology refuses to separate society from nature. As such one can consider it a philosophy of participation—we cannot develop ecocommunities that aren’t participatory. We can’t save ourselves and the planet without an ethics of freedom. This edition, with a new introduction by Bookchin scholar Andy Price, is a breath of fresh air for a left that seems to have forgotten basic truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e is one of the most interesting thinkers about the relationship between humans and the world around them. 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Technological advances made during the twentieth century have expanded production greatly, but in the pursuit of corporate profit and at the expense of human need and ecological sustainability. Far from a time when \"capital accumulation\" could be considered a prerequisite for liberation, the working class now more than ever can dispel the myth that obstructions such as the state, hierarchical social relations, and political parties (vanguards) are necessary appendages to their struggle for freedom. Bookchin's utopian vision, rooted in the realities of contemporary society, remains refreshingly pragmatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps his most influential collection of essays (including the legendary 'Listen Marxist' 'Ecology And Revolutionary Thought') this new third edition includes a new preface from the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bookchin makes a trenchant analysis of modern society, and offers a pointed, provocative discussion of the ecological crisis.\" —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141345255517,"sku":"9781904859062","price":26.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/postscarcityanarchism_72.jpg?v=1694110061"},{"product_id":"remaking-society-a-new-ecological-politics","title":"Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoving toward an ecological utopia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis--a crisis he was among the first to identify--will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society, decentralized democratic communities, and sustainable technologies like solar power, organic agriculture, and humanly scaled industries. Since he first penned these ideas, our situation has only gotten worse, and people want answers. Drawing on rich traditions of ecological science, anthropology, history, utopian philosophy, and ethics, Remaking Society offers today's environmentalists a coherent framework for social and ecological reconstruction. This pioneering work on nature and society provides readers with clear strategies for averting disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn their foreword to this new edition of \u003cem\u003eRemaking Society\u003c\/em\u003e, Marina Sitrin and Debbie Bookchin show that remaking is a continuing project: “If hierarchy has deeply wounded our relationships with each other and the natural world, capitalism has plunged a knife that much more deeply into the wound. Capitalism, [Bookchin] believes, has distorted every aspect of political, social, and even personal life.… Our challenge then is to build movements everywhere that will preserve and expand our innate creativity and eradicate any tendencies toward hierarchy, status, or other forms of domination.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“That we need to abolish capitalism and create a different society if humanity is to have a future, is now beyond question. There is no alternative. But how can we do it? This classic by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e is an invaluable source for thinking our way forward. Essential reading.” John Holloway is the author of the trilogy \u003cem\u003eChange the World Without Taking Power\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrack Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHope in Hopeless Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMurray Bookchin \u003c\/strong\u003e(1921–2006) was an active voice in the ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay, “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (1964), was one of the first to assert that capitalism’s grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. 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He was born in New York, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarina Sitrin\u003c\/strong\u003e (Foreword) is the author of \u003cem\u003eHorizontalism\u003c\/em\u003e, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThey Can’t Represent Us!\u003c\/em\u003e, and coeditor of \u003cem\u003ePandemic Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDebbie Bookchin\u003c\/strong\u003e (Foreword) is a journalist, editor, author, and daughter of Murray Bookchin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141346631773,"sku":"9781849354424","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/remaking_society-web.jpg?v=1694110176"},{"product_id":"social-anarchism-or-lifestyle-anarchism-the-unbridgeable-chasm","title":"Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn updated edition (first, 1991) of comprehensive scope, covering everything from anatomy and hormones to STDs, gender roles, sexual abuse, and communication in a manner that is scientifically-based yet warm. 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Hailed as a masterpiece, it includes a new prefatory essay by the author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Spanish Anarchists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with the excitement of learning something new. It's solidly researched, lucidly written, and admirably fair-minded... \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e is that rare bird today, a historian.\" Dwight MacDonald\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I have learned a great deal from this book. It is a rich and fascinating account... Most important, it has a wonderful spirit of revolutionary optimism that connects the Spanish anarchists with our own time.\" Howard Zinn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMurray Bookchin has written widely on politics, history, and ecology. His books—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/to-remember-spain-the-anarchist-and-syndicalist-revolution-of-1936\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTo Remember Spain: The Anarchist And Syndicalist Revolution Of 1936\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/post-scarcity-anarchism\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePost-Scarcity-Anarchism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-ecology-of-freedom-the-emergence-and-dissolution-of-hierarchy\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ecology of Freedom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/social-anarchism-or-lifestyle-anarchism-the-unbridgeable-chasm\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSocial Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—are all published by AK Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141350072413,"sku":"9781873176047","price":20.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/51zOEwhAC3L._SY264_BO1_204_203_200_QL40_ML2.jpg?v=1694110669"},{"product_id":"to-remember-spain-the-anarchist-and-syndicalist-revolution-of-1936","title":"To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930s in the context of revolutionary worker's movements of the pre-World War II era. These articles describe, analyze, and evaluate the last great proletarian revolution of the past two centuries. They form indispensable supplements to Bookchin's larger work,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-spanish-anarchists-the-heroic-years-1868-1936\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. Read together, these works constitute a highly informative and theoretically significant assessment of the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements in Spain. They are invaluable for any reader concerned with the place of the Spanish Revolution in history and with the accomplishments, insights, and failings of the anarcho-syndicalist movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141351186525,"sku":"9781873176870","price":18.62,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/61fQB831tVL._SY264_BO1_204_203_200_QL40_ML2.jpg?v=1694110853"},{"product_id":"the-reservoir-communion","title":"The Reservoir: Communion","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Either we submit to the dissociative logic of the web, or we turn to forms of defending embodied life.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is the second issue of Woodbine’s printed journal \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Reservoir,\u003c\/em\u003e featuring new texts by Kazembe Balagun, Elizabeth Povinelli, Geert Lovink, Kristin Ross, Experimental Jetset, and Marcello Tarì, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Félix Guattari.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the introduction: “The theme for this issue, Belief and the Communal, was a question to ourselves – not just a documentation of who and what we are, but a critical consideration of who we would like to be. To speak of belief carries with it the sense not just of logic but of faith. History tells us that successful experiments in communal life often have an organizing belief. They have a shared faith. But when our structures of life are oriented around the instrumental and utilitarian, the non-religious and secular, how can we re-enchant the world, the city, each other? How can we mobilize networks of newly binding enchantments for the next epoch of societal re-organization? For us this question touches on the old anarchist framework of free association, of the voluntary assembly of individuals. Needed ever-more in a metropolis like New York, but ever more rare and fleeting. It touches on the question of desire, to gather outside of work, outside of the market, to cultivate a generosity of thought and spirit, of time and attention.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e features archival texts by and reflections on Black Mountain College and the Gate Hill artists cooperative, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e, the Catholic Worker, Co-op City, Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall and Ganienkeh, George Jackson and The Black Panther Party, Llano del Rio, Provo, M.C. Richards, the Shakers, the ZAD, and more. With original art, comics, essays, fiction, illustrations, interviews, letters, photography, poetry, transcripts, and translations from more than 30 contributors, and design by Kevin McCaughey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWoodbine opened in 2014, and is soon coming up on its 10-year anniversary. Volunteer-run, it describes itself as “an experimental hub in Ridgewood, Queens for developing the practices, skills, and tools needed to build autonomy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull List of Contributors: Virgil Addison, Katie Bachler, Kazembe Balagun, Scott Berzofsky, Murray Bookchin, Dana Burns, Grace Byron, Charlie Enúf, Experimental Jetset, Celia Eydeland, Ella Fassler, Clark Fitzgerald, Victor Florence, A.M. Gittlitz, Félix Guattari, Clair Gunther, Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall, Anton Haugen, Mark He, Samantha Hinds, Institute for the Study of Urtext, Joscelyn Jurich, Geert Lovink, Mayakov+sky Platform, Misha, Max Moorhead, Jean Oury, Oskar Peacock, Andreas Petrossiants, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, M.C. Richards, Kristin Ross, Eero Talo, Marcello Tarì, Assia Turquier-Zauberman, Caterina Verde, Erick Verran, Tom Wilson, Mikal Wix\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41522643927133,"sku":"9781570274190","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/large_1635_ReservoirCommunionCROPPEDLarge2.jpg?v=1706715073"},{"product_id":"make-rojava-green-again","title":"Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is it about the social structures of Rojava that so inspires the fierce loyalty of its defenders and its people? This book answers that question. In language that bridges the Utopian and the concrete, the poetic and the everyday, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava has produced both a vision and a manual for what a free, ecological society can look like. In these pages you will find a philosophical introduction to the idea of social ecology, a theory that argues that only when we end the hierarchical relations between human beings (men over women, young over old, one ethnicity or religion over another) will we be able to heal our relationship with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dog Section Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370136244317,"sku":"9780993543562","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780993543562-us.jpg?v=1719432540"},{"product_id":"which-way-for-the-ecology-movement","title":"Which Way for the Ecology Movement?","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both \"biocentrism\" and \"ecocentrism.\" A call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, nonhierarchical, and cooperative society, begin to play a creative role in natural evolution. Bookchin attacks the misanthropic notion that the environmental crisis is caused mainly by overpopulation or humanity's genetic makeup.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe resolutely points to social causes—patriarchy, racism, and a capitalistic \"grow or die\" economy—as some of the problems the environmental movement must deal with. These ideas have to be confronted by environmentally concerned readers if the ecology movement is not to destroy its own potential as a force for social change and the achievement of a truly ecological society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e's writings have profoundly influenced ecological thinking over the last forty years. Now in his 80s, he has been a life-long radical, a trade union activist in the 30s and 40s, an innovative theorist in the 60s, and a leading participant in the anti-nuclear and radical wing of the Greens in the 70s and 80s. His ideas on social ecology have been important contributions to left libertarian thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMurray Bookchin (1921–2006) was cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology. An active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years, he wrote numerous books and articles, including: \u003cem\u003eAnarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, The Spanish Anarchists, The Ecology of Freedom, Urbanization Without Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRe-enchanting Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42781583343709,"sku":"9781873176269","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781873176269-us.jpg?v=1728673535"},{"product_id":"toward-an-ecological-society","title":"Toward an Ecological Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eIn this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin's vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless “environmentalism,” a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin’s life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As a Social Ecologist still rooted in spaces limited by 'Left' tradition, it has never felt more important to me that all self-described 'revolutionaries' wrestle with Murray Bookchin’s ideas. His challenge for those pursuing freedom—to expand their critique into social domination and hierarchy more broadly—carries insights for humanity’s future that are too crucial to ignore. These essays serve as an amazing introduction to Bookchin’s ideas, and speak to the challenges of this moment.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Z, cofounder of Black Socialists in America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bookchin is capable of penetrating, finely indignant historical analysis. Another stimulating collection.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1921–2006) was a leading voice in the ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (1964) was one of the first to assert that capitalism’s grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ecology of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, among two dozen other books. He was born in New York, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Dan Chodorkoff \u003c\/strong\u003e(Foreword) is a writer and educator who cofounded The Institute for Social Ecology with Murray Bookchin. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and he is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development\u003c\/em\u003e and the 2022 novel \u003cem\u003eSugaring Down\u003c\/em\u003e. He received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for anthropological research, and in 2015 was awarded the Goddard College Presidential Award for Activism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42932646510685,"sku":"9781849354448","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71ok-Tyjy-L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1733872153"},{"product_id":"anarchist-collectives","title":"The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–39","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Anarchist Collectives\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a very different understanding of the nature of radical social change and the means of achieving it. Sam Dolgoff, editor of the best anthology of Bakunin’s writings, has now produced an excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collective in Spain. Although there is a vast literature on the Spanish Civil War, this is the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’ self-management, both urban and rural, which constituted one of the most remarkable social revolutions in modern history.\" Paul Avrich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The eyewitness reports and commentary presented in this highly important study reveal a different understanding of the nature of socialism and the means for achieving it.\" Noam Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction, by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Background\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Spanish Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Two Revolutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Trend Towards Workers’ Self-Management\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Libertarian Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rural Collectivist Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Anarchist Influence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Political and Economic Organization of Society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Historical Notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prologue to Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Counter-Revolution and the Destruction of the Collectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Limitations of the Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: The Social Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Economics of Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEconomic Structure and Coordination\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on the Difficult Problems of Reconstruction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoney and Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Workers’ Self-Management in Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Urban Collectivization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollectivization in Catalonia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collectivization of the Metal and Munitions Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collectivization of the Optical Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Socialization of Health Services\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndustrial Collectivization in Alcoy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eControl of Industries in the North\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. The Revolution of the Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. The Coordination of Collectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Peasant Federation of Levant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Aragon Federation of Collectives: The First Congress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. The Rural Collectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Journey Through Aragon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collectivization in Graus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLibertarian Communism in Alcora\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collective in Binefar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiralcampo and Azuqueca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollectivization in Carcagente\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollectivization in Magdalena de Pulpis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Collective in Mas de Las Matas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. An Evaluation of the Anarchist Collectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Characteristics of the Libertarian Collectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43025509908573,"sku":"9780919618206","price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780919618206-us.jpg?v=1737147533"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/Murray-Bookchin-2742349187.jpg?v=1673451160","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\/religion.oembed","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}