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Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm

By Murray Bookchin

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
187317683X, 9781873176832
LCC
HX833 .B635 1995
Open Library ID
OL805350M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
905 kB (926677 bytes)
Pages
89\89
DPI
600
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book asks—and tries to answer—several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society?In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, "The Left That Was."

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