Written by Jason Toney. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant. ~ Hannah Arendt, On Violence Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind […]
Read More On Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin: Bridging Intellectual Legacies
Written by Giorgos Papahristodoulou In many of Murray Bookchin’s works, the founder of Social Ecology, we find the term “polis.” which derives from the ancient Greek language and translates to “city.” This is not due to a thinker’s unexplained obsession with antiquity, an occurrence typical for those who view historic phenomenas in terms of dominance […]
Read More The Significance of the City for Social Ecology
Speech delivered by Yavor Tarinski at the International Tribute to Murray Bookchin, 30 July 2026, organised by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. It is a great pleasure to have been invited to take part in this international commemorative tribute, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the death of Murray Bookchin. I was born and raised in […]
Read More The Significance of Spatiality in Bookchin’s Political Project
Speech delivered by Federico Venturini at the International Tribute to Murray Bookchin, 30 July 2026, organised by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. I am very pleased and honoured to take part in this international tribute to Murray Bookchin on the twentieth anniversary of his death. I never had the pleasure of meeting Murray in person and I […]
Read More Bookchin’s Living Legacy: from Social Ecology to Culture(s) of Resistance
Written by Ramazan Kaya. The following review of the Turkish edition of Bookchin’s “The Third Revolution Volume 1: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era” was originally published on 3rd of June, 2012, on the website of the Turkish left-wing magazine Birikim. Translated into English by Ertuğ Dinseven. “Bookchin’s Anarchism gets it’s revolutionary fire from Bakunin […]
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Written by Dimitri Roussopoulos Few cities, if any, can claim to have and continue to be a laboratory of Social Ecology, like Montreal. To be sure, various aspects of Social Ecology are being applied in Northeasten parts of Syria, namely Rojava. But, major components of Social Ecology, as pioneered and advanced by Murray Bookchin, have […]
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Written by Roger Jacobs To come straight to the point: I can’t trace back when and how I was introduced to the writings of Murray Bookchin. At some point in the 1980s, I picked up a Dutch reader with four of his most important essays.1 Perhaps I was motivated by this reader to procure more […]
Read More Murray Bookchin In Flanders Fields (Belgium)
Written by Alexandros Schismenos, Ph.D. In the fourth year of the Age of Artificial Intelligence, while the world seems to be overwhelmed by governments’ institutionalized technophilia and futurists’ populist technophobia, official calls for some form of technoskepticism are beginning to multiply. In recent months, two distinct forms of technoskepticism regarding Artificial Intelligence have been voiced […]
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Written by Yavor Tarinski. Cross-posted from Social Ecology & Communalism Workshop. [Murray Bookchin] was a true son of the Enlightenment in his respect for clear thought and moral responsibility and in his honest, uncompromising search for a realistic hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin[1] With the fall of the Soviet Union, but also with the continuous […]
Read More Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy
An interview with Murray Bookchin, conducted by Janet Biehl on 12 November 1996 in Burlington, Vermont. First appeared in: JANET BIEHL, The Politics of Social Ecology, Libertarian Municipalism, Black Rose Books, Montreal etc., 1998 pp 145-176. Janet Biehl: Murray, one of your anarchist critics has taken your slogan “Democratize the republic and radicalize the democracy” and, […]
Read More Interview with Murray Bookchin on Libertarian Municipalism and More (12-11-1996)
