by margaret | Jan 31, 2017 | bookchin, confederalism
Few arguments have been used more effectively to challenge the case for face-to-face participatory democracy than the claim that we live in a complex society. Modern population centers, we are told, are too large and too concentrated to allow for direct...
by margaret | Jul 29, 2016 | bookchin, foundation, platform
adapted from Murray Bookchin, Municipal Libertarianism Any agenda that tries to restore and amplify the classical meaning of politics and citizenship must clearly indicate what they are not, if only because of the confusion that surrounds the two words. Politics is...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 11, 2016 | bookchin, technology
Even more troubling are the writings of George Bradford (aka David Watson), one of the major theorists at Fifth Estate, on the horrors of technology — apparently technology as such. Technology, it would seem, determines social relations rather than the opposite,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 10, 2016 | art, bey, bookchin, chaos, liberty
Hakim Bey Since absolutely nothing can be predicated with any real certainty as to the “true nature of things”, all projects (as Nietzsche says) can only be “founded on nothing.” And yet there must be a project—if only because we ourselves...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 10, 2016 | bey, bookchin, chaos, taz
adapted from Murray Bookchin — Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm One of the most unsavory examples of lifestyle anarchism is Hakim Bey’s (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson) T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchism,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 8, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, liberty
Social anarchism is made of fundamentally different stuff, heir to the Enlightenment tradition, with due regard to that tradition’s limits and incompleteness. Depending upon how it defines reason, social anarchism celebrates the thinking mind without in any way...
