Peruse Post-Scarcity Anarchism Portrayed By Murray Bookchin In Physical Edition

eventually got round to finishing this book, having originally found the first few chapters online for free, To be honest, I'm not sure it was worth bothering with the rest of the book I mainly carried on with it so I wouldn't be behind on my reading challenge on here!

The book is a collection of essays, some I found interesting, others less so.
It was fascinating to read a book written overyears talk about issues we don't seem any further forward with melting

ice caps, usage of fossil fuels.
Not just issues of environmentalism but also the fact that we live in a post scarcity society, and still people are dying needlessly, as we get deeper into capitalism.
It is an almost surreal mix of feeling strangely contemporary, yet also simultaneously outdated in many ways,

In this book you will find 'Listen, Marxist!', an essay where Bookchin critiques Marx's analysis of how topple state power.
I don't think I'm well read on Marx enough to actually say whether it was a good faith reading of Marx or not, although it read like many arguments I have heard from many other anarchists, so I don't feel like there was a new perspective here that I hadn't already heard.


Personally I found the second half of the book much more difficult to read, I struggled immensely trying to keep interest when Bookchin goes into great detail about how powerful new computers are, or solar panels the science and math detail he included really didn't do it for me.
Of course, it doesn't help that I am reading this innot's, although I will admit there is something refreshing about his excitement about these prospects.
He then discusses the French general strike ofin a detailed, but very idealised way, As impressive and inspiring I find the events ofI think it is important to consider what went wrong and why revolution did not occur I feel Bookchin very much idealises this event in history.
 I also found his discuss on the Athenian polis extremely interesting, it is definitely something I will read more about as I know very little.
I didn't, however, appreciate the one line dedicated to women being left out of the arena, or the page that was dedicated to explaining why slavery wasn't that bad there compared to other places, which left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth! Looking back now, it seems Bookchin had too much faith in the counterculture of the's being able to overthrow the current global system, especially when you consider the devastation that Thatcherism and Reganism caused and continue to a decade or so later.


Reading this review back, it sounds pretty negative but I did actually enjoy this book, and I like a lot of aspects of Bookchin's ideology.
I really admire his optimism, sometimes delving into idealism it's exciting and refreshing and it makes a change to hear someone radical talk about all the good stuff that could be, all the exciting things that could be possible, not just how shit the current world is.
As a libertarian socialist it isn't suprising I agree with Bookchin on a lot of points and I love his detailed ideas about municipal and neighbour councils it is especially interesting as I am also ready some of the writing of Abdullah Ocalan currently too.
 

It's an interesting book, and the optimism and hope you find in Bookchin is refreshing, but I don't feel like I learnt a new perspective that I hadn't already heard before in most cases and I feel these days there is more up to date work that is more relevant to the situation in.
This book literally changed my life, Only one other book in my undergraduate education moved me as this one did, Bookchinden yine oldukça kafa açıcı, birçok yeri tarafımdan altı çizili çizili bir kitap daha, Bookchinin “Dinle Marksist” gibi döneminde çok ses getirmiş makalelerini içeren, birbiri ile ilişkili makaleler bütünlüğünde bir kitap.


Bookchinlarda Stalin,larda Troçkist,lerde Özgürlükçü Marksist,larda anarşist,larda komünalizmi savunuyor.
larda anarşizmi reddetme nedeni ise anarşizmin bireyci de olabileceği kendisi ekolojik bir anarşizme inanıyor.
Sosyalizm kelimesini tek başına kullanmıyorözgürlükçü sosyalizm diyor,

Bookchin gibi çok iyi üst okumalar yapabilen ve teoriler ortaya koymuş birini okumak, düşünce akışında ilerlemek çok şey öğretiyor.
Özellikle kendi fikirlerinde direten insanlar bütününü düşünürsek, kendi kendini sürekli çürütmüş ve değiştirebilmiş olması da takdire şayan.
Bookchinin her daim aktivizm alanında olan biri olarak, safi teori yapmadığını da belirtelim, Yazacak çok şey var daha ama şimdilik Bookchin okumaya devam diyeyim sadece: I bought this book in Manchester onMarchso it clearly took me a long time to get round to reading it! Unfortunately I appear to have lost it.
Prescient though perhaps clouded by its vision of the lates, Bookchins collection of essays is still engaged with the present.
The provocative, “Listen, Marxist!” challenges the dogmatic revolutionarys preconceptions about economic and political power, the bourgeois hierarchies present within some leftist ideology, and encourages a wholistic revolutionary practice dependent on spontaneity and selfmanagment.


In “Desire and Need” he illustrates the need for a movement strengthened by libidinal desire, “a new sensuousness based on possibility.
” Dismantling the prescribed objective and scientific of earlier Marxist thought and while critics of all anarchist writing scoff at the unbridled Utopianism they contest as necessary, one cannot help but be swayed by Bookchins knowledge and fervor.


There is more contention in essays such as “Toward a Liberatory Technology” due to the unpredictable and I would argue depoliticizing growth of the virtual world which has supplanted our reality.
But “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” reads as a perfect outline for a sustainable reimagining of industry and agriculture, The first essay, concerned with defining and parsing out the world of PostScarcity, is an excellent entry point to the book and reads as clearly today as it didyears ago.
Throughout much of the book I found myself puzzling over how little has changed in the ensuing yearsa bit of a depressing thought but Bookchin posits a better, and still possible future in each essay.
Our time is one when the imagination of political change is hung on empty New Deal style reform packages except, this time, really really really REALLY for everyone and blinded by the beaming smiles of "radical" poster children sticking it to the man.
. . from the podium at UN conferences, backed up by will, i. am and, eternally, Bono.

Bookchin, though a man of his own time in no short measure, offers us a counter to imaginations encroached upon and limited in totality by an uninspiring world.
Better than all the left writers I am familiar with, he extols a refreshing spiritually uplifting, and radically idealistic society subjectively and conceptually United body and mind, reason and sensuality, individual and group, nature and artifice.
One in which the rapid advancement of technology is used to construct a diffuse, human scale environment no regional natural gas plants, but solar panels on each home.
One in which our individual and social existences are managed as ships on the ocean with intention, but respect for the current.
One in which each diverse thing and the whole they constitute is regarded as vitally important unity through diversity.
One in which these principles, many of which I forget here, are united to construct a space in which each individual recognizes, shapes, and realizes their creative potentialities in the intellectual, the spiritual, and the sensual realms.


Critiques of classical Marxism are illuminating, Outdated in many spots, but the fundamental ideals are still applicable if for no other reason than our continual failure to build a beautiful world.
Doesn't provide a convincing argument for the emergence and maintenance of a true revolution from affinity groups, .