Murray Bookchin Reader
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Sources
Introduction1 An Ecological Society
Introduction
Decentralization
Anarchism and Ecology
The New Technology and the Human Scale
Ecological Technology
Social Ecology2 Nature, First and Second
Introduction
Images of First Nature
Participatory Evolution
Society as Second Nature
On Biocentrism3 Organic Society
Introduction
Usufruct, Complementarity, and the Irreducible Minimum
Romanticizing Organic Society4 The Legacy of Domination
Introduction
The Emergence of Hierarchy
The Rise of the State
The Rise of Capitalism
The Market Society5 Scarcity and Post-Scarcity
Introduction
Conditions of Freedom
The Problem of Want and Work
Cybernation and Automation
Technology for Life
The Fetishization of Needs6 Marxism
Introduction
Marxism and Domination
Marxism and Leninism7 Anarchism
Introduction
The Two Traditions: Anarchism
Anarchy and Libertarian Utopias
Cultures of Revolt
Spanish Anarchism: The Collectives
Critique of Lifestyle Anarchism8 Libertarian MunicipalismIntroduction
The New Municipal Agenda
9 Dialectical Naturalism
Introduction
Objectively Grounded Ethics
A Philosophical Naturalism
Ecologizing the Dialectic10 Reason and History
Introduction
History, Civilization, and ProgressPermissions
Index