The Murray Bookchin Reader List of
Sources
- I. An Ecological Society
- Decentralization: Selected from Our
Synthetic Environment, under the pseudonym
Lewis Herber (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), pp.
237-45. The British edition of this book was published by
Jonathan Cape (London, 1963); a revised paperback edition
was published by Harper Colophon Books, under the name
Murray Bookchin (New York, 1974).
- Anarchism and Ecology:
From "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought," under
the pseudonym Lewis Herber, Comment
[N.Y.] (1964). This essay was republished in Anarchy
[U.K.] 69, vol. 6 (1966); and in Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity
Anarchism (San Francisco: Ramparts
Books, 1971; London: Wildwood House, 1974; and Montreal:
Black Rose Books, 1986). This selection comes from Post-Scarcity
Anarchism, pp. 76-82.
- The New Technology and the Human Scale:
From "Towards a Liberatory Technology," in Comment
[N.Y.] (1965). Republished in Anarchy
[U.K.] 78, vol. 7 (1967) and in Post-Scarcity
Anarchism (1971, 1974, 1986), from
which this selection comes, pp. 106-12. I have removed
most of the (often dated) technical material from this
and the following selection.
- Ecological Technology:
From ibid., pp. 113-30.
- Social Ecology: From
Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of
Freedom (Palo Alto, Calif.:
Cheshire Books, 1982), pp. 20-25. Second edition
published by Black Rose Books (Montreal, 1991).
- II. Nature, First and Second
- Images of First Nature:
From "What Is Social Ecology?" in Murray
Bookchin, The Modern Crisis
(Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1986; and
Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1987), pp. 52, 55-62. This
essay was originally a seminar lecture presented at the
University of Frankfurt (Germany) in 1984.
- Participatory Evolution:
From "Freedom and Necessity in Nature," in
Murray Bookchin, The Philosophy of
Social Ecology, revised edition
(Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995), pp. 77-81. This essay
was originally published in Alternatives,
vol. 13, no. 4 (Nov. 1986); it was heavily revised for
the 1995 edition of The Philosophy
of Social Ecology.
- Society as Second Nature:
From Murray Bookchin, Remaking
Society: Pathways to a Green Future
(Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1989; Boston: South End
Press, 1990), pp. 25-30, 35-39.
- On Biocentrism: From
Murray Bookchin, Re-enchanting
Humanity (London: Cassell, 1995),
pp. 100-104
- III. Organic Society
- Usufruct, Complementarity, and the
Irreducible Minimum: From The
Ecology of Freedom (1982), pp.
48-49, 50-52, and 143-45.
- Romanticizing Organic Society:
From "Twenty Years Later . . . ," the
introduction to the revised edition of The
Ecology of Freedom (1991), pp.
xvii-xix, xxxviii, xxxix-xliv, xlv-xlvii, xlviii, il- li.
- IV. The Legacy of Domination
- The Emergence of Hierarchy:
From The Ecology of Freedom
(1982), pp. 74-87.
- The Rise of the State:
From Murray Bookchin, The Rise of
Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1987), pp. 138-46.
Republished in Canada as Urbanization
Without Cities by Black Rose Books
(Montreal, 1992); and republished with revisions as From
Urbanization to Cities by Cassell
(London, 1995). This selection is taken from pp. 129-36
of the latter edition.
- The Rise of Capitalism:
From Urbanization
(1987 and 1992), pp. 201-207; in the 1995 Cassell
edition, pp. 181-86.
- The Market Society:
From The Ecology of Freedom
(1982), pp. 135-39.
- V. Scarcity and Post-Scarcity
- Conditions of Freedom:
From "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" (1967), in Post-Scarcity
Anarchism (1971), pp. 33-35, 37-40.
- The Problem of Want and Work:
From "Toward a Liberatory Technology" (1965),
in Post-Scarcity Anarchism
(1971), pp. 89-94.
- Cybernation and Automation:
From "Toward a Liberatory Technology" (1965),
in Post-Scarcity Anarchism
(1971), pp. 95- 105.
- Technology for Life:
From "Toward a Liberatory Technology" (1965),
in Post-Scarcity Anarchism
(1971), pp. 130-39.
- The Fetishization of Needs:
From The Ecology of Freedom
(1982), pp. 67-72.
- VI. Marxism
- Marxism and Domination:
This selection combines excerpts from The
Ecology of Freedom (1982), pp.
64-65, and from "Marxism as Bourgeois
Sociology" Comment
[n.s.], vol. 1, no. 2 (Feb. 1979). Republished in Toward
an Ecological Society (Montreal:
Black Rose Books, 1980), pp. 203-206.
- Marxism and Leninism:
From "Listen, Marxist!" (1969), in Post-
Scarcity Anarchism (1971), pp.
181-85, 198-208.
- VII. Anarchism
- The Two Traditions--Anarchism:
From "Listen, Marxist!" (1969), in Post-Scarcity
Anarchism (1971), pp. 208-220.
- Anarchy and Libertarian Utopias:
From Remaking Society
(1989, 1990), pp. 117-22, 124-26.
- Cultures of Revolt:
From From Urbanization to Cities
(1986), pp. 211-15; in the 1995 Cassell edition, pp.
189-92.
- Spanish Anarchism--The Collectives:
This selection combines excerpts from "Overview of
the Spanish Libertarian Movement" (1974) and
"After Fifty Years" (1985), both in Murray
Bookchin, To Remember Spain
(Edinburgh and San Francisco: A.K. Press, 1995), pp.
9-14, 26-27, 43-44. "Overview" was originally
published as "Reflections on Spanish Anarchism"
in Our Generation,
vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1974); it was republished (in
part) as the introductory essay to Sam Dolgoff, The
Anarchist Collectives: Workers Self-Management in the
Spanish Revolution 1936-39 (New
York: Free Life Editions, and Montreal: Black Rose Books,
both 1974). "After Fifty Years" was originally
published as "The Spanish Civil War, 1936," in New
Politics 1 (Spring 1986).
- Critique of Lifestyle Anarchism:
From "Social Anarchism versus Lifestyle
Anarchism," in Murray Bookchin Social
Anarchism versus Lifestyle Anarchism
(Edinburgh and San Francisco: A.K. Press, 1995), pp. 8-9,
49-54, 56-61.
- VIII. Libertarian Municipalism
- The New Municipal Agenda:
This selection comes primarily from chapter 8 of Urbanization
(1987, 1992, 1995), passim; with some interpolations from
"Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced
Capitalism," Green
Perspectives, no. 18 (Nov. 1989);
"The Meaning of Confederalism," Green
Perspectives, no. 20 (Nov. 1990);
and "Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview," Green
Perspectives, no. 24 (Oct. 1991).
On some occasions, such as while writing Urbanization,
Bookchin referred to his political ideas as
"confederal municipalism" rather than as
"libertarian municipalism." In this selection,
at his request, I have changed "confederal
municipalism" to his preferred "libertarian
municipalism."
- IX. Dialectical Naturalism
- Objectively Grounded Ethics:
From "Rethinking Ethics, Nature, and Society"
(written in 1985), in The Modern
Crisis (1986), pp. 7-13.
- A Philosophical Naturalism:
From the introduction to The
Philosophy of Social Ecology,
revised edition (1995), pp. 3-11, 13-15, 16-24, 26-27,
28-33.
- Ecologizing the Dialectic:
From "Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical
Approach," in The Philosophy of
Social Ecology, revised edition
(1995), pp. 119, 120, 124, 125-26, 127-31, 133-36,
140-41. This article was originally published in Our
Generation, vol. 18, no. 2
(Spring-Summer 1987).
- X. Reason and History
- History, Civilization, and Progress:
From "History, Civilization, and Progress: Outline
for a Criticism of Modern Relativism," in The
Philosophy of Social Ecology,
revised edition (1995), pp. 147-48, 157-79. Originally
published in Green Perspectives,
no. 29 (Mar. 1994).