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.
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 BookchinThe assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
Murray BookchinI have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.
Murray Bookchin