“Breaks new ground in its discussion of freedom in a society of technological abundance… Bookchin makes a trenchant analysis of modern society, and offers a pointed, provocative discussion of the ecological crisis.”--Library Journal
“Bookchin’s great virtue- which he shares with some other modern anarchist thinkers like Paul Goodman and Colin Ward- is that he constantly relates his theories to society as it is- not as an abstraction, but a human reality, and to what people can do at the basic social levels.”--George Woodcock
"Bookchin's caustic comments are ever important, rarely finding an equal in the field of contemporary analysis."
--Canadian Book Review Annual
A new introduction by the author brings this contemporary classic up to the minute. Bookchin’s views on organization, technology, ecology, and social change, as recorded in this collection continue to be sought and debated by those committed to progressive thought and action.
The tradition left, says Bookchin, has missed the boat; it ignores the potential of modern technology and the emergence of a new culture. A true movement for change, he argues, must integrate ecological and utopian ideas with a libertarian theory of society.
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, and The Ecology of Freedom.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the First Edition
Introduction to the Second EditionPost-Scarcity Anarchism
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Towards a Liberatory Technology
The Forms of Freedom
Listen, Marxist!
A Note on Affinity Groups
A Discussion on “Listen, Marxist!”
The May-June Events in France: 1 France: a Movement for Life
The May-June Events in France: 2 Excerpts from a Letter
Desire and Need
265 pages
Paperback ISBN: 0-920057-39-X
Hardcover ISBN: 0-920057-41-1
Currently Out of Print
1986
