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- In The Modern Crisis, Bookchin emphasizes the need to abandon the benefit-versus-risk mentality that permeates the Left’s thinking, pushing them to continually opt for “the lesser evil.” He also dismantles the idea that self-interest is inherently human, a con- cept deeply ingrained in our society.
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Feb 21, 2020 · Long ago, Bookchin outlined what he described as the “modern crisis”, highlighting that both global capitalism and the modern liberal state are in dire straits (Bookchin 1986). This crisis, for Bookchin, was indeed manifold; at once social, economic, political, and ecological.
Mar 1, 2008 · With the world wars and Great Depression of the 20th century appearing to have only strengthened global capitalism, Bookchin saw the emerging ecological crisis as one challenge that would fundamentally undermine the system’s inherent logic.
Jan 14, 2021 · Perhaps the widening scope of the ecological crisis would have eventually raised an alarm about its broader social and political dimensions, but Murray Bookchin was the first to put all the pieces together and help us see the way toward a fully liberated ecological society.
The modern crisis ... The modern crisis by Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006. Publication date 1987 Topics Umweltethik, Écologie humaine, Human ecology, Sozialökologie ...
Jan 30, 2024 · In The Modern Crisis, Bookchin emphasizes the need to abandon the benefit-versus-risk mentality that permeates the Left’s thinking, pushing them to continually opt for “the lesser evil.” He also dismantles the idea that self-interest is inherently human, a con- cept deeply ingrained in our society.
Bookchin resolved to keep one central aspect of Marx’s modernist approach: the notion of the dialectic unfolding of history, of the ability to examine and understand this unfolding, and the ability to understand the organisation of
Bookchin began to advance a social critique of a serious ecological crisis (see Herber [Bookchin], 1952). He was among the first to warn of the dangers of chemicals in food, of nuclear energy, and of radiation fallout. When others were pressing forward with growth-oriented ideologies, he advanced pioneering calls for
