About 20 years ago (30 July 2006) the great Green political philosopher, activist and ecological social theorist and pioneer, Murray Bookchin passed away leaving behind a tremendous endowment of fresh ideas and future frameworks, in dozens of books and hundreds of articles and speeches. Influenced by the works of Kropotkin, among others, Bookchin methodically and exhaustively explored every...About 20 years ago (30 July 2006) the great Green political philosopher, activist and ecological social theorist and pioneer, Murray Bookchin passed away leaving behind a tremendous endowment of fresh ideas and future frameworks, in dozens of books and hundreds of articles and speeches. Influenced by the works of Kropotkin, among others, Bookchin methodically and exhaustively explored every possible combination and permutation of ecology, anarchism and socialism, subsequently developing his own concepts, including Social Ecology, Libertarian Municipalism, and Communalism. His first book "Our Synthetic Environment" was published a few months before Rachel Carson's *Silent Spring*, and it was far more radical and wider in scope and prophetic in many ways. Bookchin rightly pinpointed rapid industrialization and development as the cause of environmental degradation and poisoning, which leads to a health and social crisis. He convincingly explained that the ecological crisis was fundamentally a social crisis. In his future works, he endlessly searched for solutions, proposing decentralization, human-scale, and non-hierarchical, democratic communities and workplaces among other concepts. The Institute of Social Ecology continues his work and a great online course is coming up in July. social-ecology.org/wp/courses/the-anthropology-of-… Show more

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