BOOKCHIN, Murray
"Which Way for the Ecology Movement?"
£4.50
pb.1 873176 26 9.80
ecology/philosophy/anarchism
In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both biocentrism and ecocentrism. A call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, nonhierarchical and cooperative society, begin to play a creative role in natural evolution. Bookchin attacks the misanthropic notion that the environmental crisis is caused mainly by overpopulation or humanitys genetic makeup.
He resolutely points to social causes patriarchy, racism, and a capitalistic grow or die economy, as some of the problems the environmental movement must deal with. These ideas have to be confronted by environmentally concerned readers if the ecology movement is not to destroy its own potential as a force for social change and the achievement of a truly ecological society.
Murray Bookchin,s writings have profoundly influenced ecological thinking over the last forty years. Now in his seventies, he has been a life long radical a trade union activist in the 30s and 40s, an innovative theorist in the 60s and a leading participant in the antinuclear and radical wing of the Greens in the 70s and 80s. His ideas on anarchism and social ecology have been important contributions to left libertarian thinking.
