Murray Bookchin has been a major spokesperson for more than twenty years for the ecology, appropriate technology, and anti-nuclear movements. He is the author of many books, including The Spanish Anarchists, Our Synthetic Environment, The Limits of the City, Toward an Ecological Society, Urbanization Without Cities, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, and The Ecology of Freedom.

The Modern Crisis, in which he proposes a fundamental and empowering reconstruction of politics based on face-to-face municipal democracy, is the perfect introduction to the ideas of this great social theorist.

“Murray Bookchin stands at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism.” --Stanley Aronowitz, The Village Voice

Table of Contents

Rethinking Ethics, Nature, and Society

What Is Social Ecology

Market Economy or Moral Economy?

An Appeal for Social and Ecological Sanity

Workers and the Peace Movement