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.
Murray BookchinI'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.
Murray BookchinI believe that it's terribly important to have a movement that is spiritual, not in the supernatural sense, but in the sense of German Geist, spirit, which combines the idea of mind together with feeling, together with intuition.
Murray BookchinMy main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.
Murray BookchinCapitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.
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 Bookchin