I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left - is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It's becoming the real right in the United States.
Murray BookchinI believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.
Murray BookchinIn our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.
Murray BookchinNew England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.
Murray Bookchin