by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 8, 2016 | bookchin, liberty
Contrary to the cosmic order, there are some days in history that do not rise up. In order to appear, these new things disguise themselves and possibly their borrowed dress, yesterday’s will stifle them. This fragile moment is also that of human decision...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 7, 2016 | anarchism, bookchin, history, liberty, locke
adapted from Murray Bookchin — Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Ideological individualism did not fade away altogether during this 19th century period of sweeping social unrest. A sizable reservoir of individualist anarchists,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 7, 2016 | bookchin, liberty
adapted from Murray Bookchin — Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm For some two centuries, anarchism — a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas — developed in the tension between two basically contradictory...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
If many pragmatic people are blind to the importance of decentralism, many in the ecology movement tend to ignore very real problems with “localism” — problems no less troubling than the problems raised by a globalism that fosters a total interlocking of economic and...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Above all, I have tried to show in my previous writings how confederation on a municipal basis has existed in sharp tension with the centralized state generally, and the nation-state of recent times. Confederalism, I have tried to emphasize, is not simply a unique...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Decentralism and self-sustainability must involve a much broader principle of social organization than mere localism. Together with decentralization, approximations to self-sufficiency, humanly scaled communities, ecotechnologies, and the like, there is a compelling...
