On Bookchin's Social Ecology and its Contributions to Social Movements (original) (raw)

"The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin"

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Eco-communalism. Bookchin and the Ecology of Revolution

The article develops two main arguments. The first develops the four points on which Murray Bookchin enriches the revolutionary socialist tradition: through the integration of ecology, the consideration of the problem of hierarchy, a rereading of the history of revolutions, and the communalist project as a way to jointly overcome Marxism and anarchism. The second explains that Bookchin's work consists of two inseparable investigations, on the one hand, into the causes of the ecological crisis and, on the other, into the politics of emancipation capable of overcoming this crisis. Bookchin's communalism is ultimately an eco-communalism that allows us to reinscribe the evolution of societies in the evolution of the nature to which they belong.

(2021) Enlightenment and Ecology. The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21 st Century

libcom.org https://libcom.org/library/book-review-enlightenment-ecology-legacy-murray-bookchin-21st-century, 2021

Murray Bookchin's (1921-2006) anti-capitalist thinking combined community, direct democracy and ecology into a radical political theory he called social ecology. Throughout the 20th century it stood alongside growing arguments for eco-social change and influenced leftist discourses on citizenship, domination and freedom. In the new millennium, it has formed the basis of the Kurdish feminist-ecological revolution in Rojava and thus been implemented for the first time in practice. The edited volume Enlightenment and Ecology. The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century celebrates Bookchin's legacy and considers the lived experiences of social ecology. The anthology is a heartfelt endeavour to point out the urgency, potential and possibility for social change that grounds in the collaborative world-making of ecosystems to create free democratic societies that gain their resilience through a unity in diversity. The activists, thinkers and scholars writing place their contributions in political and economic theory, in decades of social engagement and in co-creation and observation of real-life movements. The outcome is a multifaceted anthology whose engaged voices paint a vivid, dialectical picture of the challenges and hopes of creating practice out of theory.

Murray Bookchin: The Man Who Brought Radical Ecology and Assembly Democracy to the Left (2012)

New Left Project, 2012

understood earlier than almost anyone that an ecological crisis was not only looming but posted a challenge to capitalism and the whole social order. In the 1950s and 1960s, before most people even knew what ecology was, he was proposing fundamental solutions. Being ahead of his time, however, meant that his ideas were either ignored or condemned when they were first published; they remain insufficiently recognized today.

Social ecology & its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement

As a rising awareness of the consequences of environmental problems comes to reshape the agendas of critical thinkers and activists around the world, it is more important than ever to fully appreciate the origins of eco-socialist thought. Perhaps foremost among those who brought a coherent left analysis to environmental issues, while first introducing ecology to many on the left, is Murray Bookchin, the founding theorist of social ecology. Bookchin was a pioneer of left ecological thought and action beginning in the 1950s and sixties, and his voluminous and many-faceted work continues to influence theorists and activists to this day.

Bookchin's Historical Social Theory: Hierarchy, Domination, Nature

2003

Abstract The work of Murray Bookchin stands as one of the most ambitious attempts in recent times to produce a post-Marxist critical social theory that places ecological concerns at its core. This article argues that this richly elaborated theory has highlighted the distinct limitations of" high modernist" formulations of historical materialism and liberalism.