People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights-this is the true left in the United States.Newman, Reason magazine, (October 1979) pp. “Reason Interview: Murray Bookchin: A controversial anarchist talks about government, the Libertarian Party, Ayn Rand, and the evolution of his own ideas”, Leslee J.They are the ones that really frighten me. And in Europe, I would say that today the real support for State power and totalitarianism comes from the Communist parties and the Socialist parties and, where they are sizable, the Trotskyist groups. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality-a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature. We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. It's becoming the real right in the United States. The American left today as I know it-and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left-is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism.Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), introduction to the First Edition (p.When all the resources exist to promote social equality, nothing is more criminal to ethnic minorities, women and homosexuals than subjugation. When modern industry can provide abundance for all, nothing is more vicious to poor people than a lifetime of poverty. When cybernated and automatic machinery can reduce toil to the near vanishing point, nothing is more meaningless to young people than a lifetime of toil.Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965).An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle hence my use of the term social ecology. Quotes As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. 1.3 Anarchism in America (15 January 1983).
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