Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarch
An Unbridgeable Chasm
Murray Bookchin
ISBN: | 9781873176832 |
Publisher: | AK Press, 1995. |
Published: | 20 March, 1996 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarch
An Unbridgeable Chasm
Murray Bookchin
This book asks—and tries to answer—several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society? In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, "The Left That Was."
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