I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States.

When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality - a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature.