My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has created a highly corporatized economy, and I have to ask myself why. What is it in the market that led 100 capitalists to dissolve into 10 as a result of rivalry and accumulation, 10 into 3, and I think if the system has its way, those 3 into 1?

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

What higher property do you have than your own person? I totally agree, by the way, with John Locke's idea that one's body is literally the most precious property that exists. I would say that conscription is the most heinous violation of property that one can imagine.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

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

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.