Murray Bookchin Quotes
I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.
Bookchin, Murray. "Interview with Murray Bookchin." Interview by Jeff Riggenbach. Reason, vol. 11, no. 6, Oct. 1979, p. 34.
Ideologues often use the tactic of opposing everything the government does—even if they would support it intellectually. The main issue for them was to win the class warfare, and the move to that end by never giving the government credit for anything or sharing power or cooperating in any way. This is not just a tactic of the left. The Tea Party Conservative Republicans adopted the same tactics with the Barack Obama Democratic Administration.
Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist, political philosopher, trade-union organizer, and educator. A pioneer in the environmental movement, Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and social ecology. Among the most important were Our Synthetic Environment (1962), Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982) and Urbanization Without Cities (1987). In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called communalism, which seeks to reconcile Marxist and anarchist thought.
