Murray Bookchin Quotes
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. They are the ones that really frighten me.
Bookchin, Murray. "Interview with Murray Bookchin." Reason, Oct. 1979.
On a much smaller and less damaging scale, there were some government American officials tried to intimidate, censor and if thosoe failed, ruin and discredit scientiosts who did not agree with their view of the dangers of nuclear weapons and the various policy options. Although they drove Oppenheimer and some other scientists out of government and to this day have produced scientists who will not work on government research, the laws, Constitution and checks and galances and cmittment to the Constitution be most Americcans limited the damage somewhat and unlike Russia who assassianted scientists who did not follow the Party line, the few American officials just asassinated their character and patriotism.
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.
