There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.
Murray BookchinI feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.
Murray BookchinI will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.
Murray BookchinI believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.
Murray BookchinAs for the workers' movement, I find that I reach workers more easily as neighbors than I do standing outside the factory despairingly giving out a leaflet telling them to take over, say the Ford plant.
Murray BookchinI would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person. Some of my best friends are anarcho-syndicalists. I mean, I realize that we do not have a commonality, even a language, that makes it possible for us to communicate.
Murray Bookchin