Murray Bookchin (innate January 14, 1921) is an American libertarian socialist speaker & writer, and founder of the "Social Ecology" school of anarchist and ecological thought.

He was innate within New York City and grew up as a self-described "red-diaper baby", imbued using Marxist ideology from his youth. Inside adolescence he gravitated towards Trotskyism, then bit by bit became enlightened by using a coercion he saw as inherent within conventional Marxism-Leninism. Within a bit of circles he became known for his ability to deliver devastating criticisms of Marxist ideology utilizing conventional Marxist language. In the 1960s he was a member of the Libertarian League. Within 1974 he helped discovered a Institute for Social Ecology.

Bookchin has remained the radical anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society. His idea of Libertarian Municipalism has had an influence on the Green Movement and anti-capitalist direct action groups such as Reclaim the Streets. He occurs as stanch critic of biocentric philosophies such as Deep Ecology and the biologically determinstic belief of Sociobiology.

Bookchin is the creator of numerous works, including Post Scarcity Anarchism & A Ecology of Freedom. A Politics of Social Ecology, written together sustaining his partner of twenty a select few years, Janet Biehl, covers a political realities every bit viewed by Bookchin & his associates towards a prevent of a 20th century, maps the histories of key democractic societies which influenced his political philosophy, & defines the implementation of the Libertarian Municipalism concept.

Quotes
"An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles." (from either Ecology & Todays Thought 1984)

"Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism."

"Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society."

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

"The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology." (from either What Is Social Ecology? 1984)

Selected works
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) ISBN 087867005X Social Anarchism or even Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm (1997) ISBN 187317683X A Restricts of the City (1973) ISBN 0060910135 Toward an Ecological Society (1980) ISBN 0919618987 A Ecology of Freedom (1982) ISBN 0917352092 A Modern Crisis (1986) ISBN 086571083X Re-Enchanting Humanity (1995) ISBN 030432843X

General reading
Biehl, J. (1997), A Murray Bookchin Reader. Cassell ISBN 0304338737 Clark, J. (1990), Renewing a Globe: A Promise of Social Ecology. Green Print. ISBN 1854250019 Marshall, P. (1992), Murray Bookchin & a Ecology of Freedom, within, Demanding A Impossible. Fontana Click. ISBN 0006862454