Goodbye, Murray Bookchin
Press Action
Monday, July 31, 2006
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/bookchin07312006/
(January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006)
Author of Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971 and 2004); The Limits of the City (1973); The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years (1977 and 1998); Toward an Ecological Society (1980); The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (1982 and 2005); The Modern Crisis (1986); Remaking Society; and several other books and articles.
"To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.” -(from Remaking Society)