libertarian socialist
author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology
movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology
movement within anarchist, libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology. In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with political Anarchism
and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism
.
Bookchin was an anti-capitalist
and vocal advocate of the decentralisation
of society along ecological and democratic lines.
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
"Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic Character. If anything, partial
"If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)... Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be."
"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."