MURRAY BOOKCHIN 1921-.
In: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, 2000-12-07, S. 241-246
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This article discusses the contribution of Murray Bookchin, a political activist, to radical green politics in the U.S. Bookchin's main contribution to green politics has been the development of social ecology, a radical and revolutionary form of green political theory and action which he has developed and espoused since the 1960s. Social ecology can be described as a form of eco-anarchism, in which the cause of the ecological crisis lies in structures of hierarchy and power associated with the modern bureaucratic state and corporate capitalism. Bookchin's work on social ecology has recently developed into what he calls libertarian municipalism--a confederal society based on the co-ordination of municipalities in a bottom-up system of administration as distinguished from the top-down rule of the nation-state. It differs from bioregionalism in its concern with the issue of interaction between communities and the rejection of the bioregional model of small-scale, self-sufficient communities, promoted by other environmental thinkers such as Rudolf Bahro. The aim of libertarian municipalism is to recapture the classical political values of the polis, and authentic politics of the community, in opposition to the inauthentic, modern politics which Bookchin views as statecraft.
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MURRAY BOOKCHIN 1921-.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Barry, John ; Palmer, Joy A. ; Cooper, David E. ; Corcoran, Peter Blaze |
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Zeitschrift: | Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, 2000-12-07, S. 241-246 |
Quelle: | Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment; (2000-12-07) S. 241-246 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2000 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-415-14699-9 (print) |
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