May 14, 1973 Murray Bookchin replies to Jeremy Brecher’s review of Post-Scarcity Anarchism. I take Jeremy Brecher to be a decent, intelligent, and honest guy whom I know personally and like very much. Hence, when Jeremy comes out with a 37-page (typescript) review of my book, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, that misinterprets important aspects of the… Read More »
A Post-Affluence Critique
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22. I Throughout the 1960’s, the themes of a return to nature, hostility to synthetics, anti-“consumerism,” dissolution of sexual restrictions and roles, community and tribalism, internal exploration through drugs and other means, all became widespread among… Read More »
Notes on the Postal Strike, 1970
Root and Branch on the wildcat strike of US postal workers in 1970 and its implications. I A new labor movement is being born in America. It is the autonomous creation of the working class. It exists more potentially than actually, but its early seeds are appearing in wildcat strikes in the trucking, air transport,… Read More »
THE VIETNAM MORATORIUM
May 12, 1969 True mass movements develop quickly; they contain contradictory impulses; they change rapidly in the face of events their leaders cannot control. The great mass movement called the Moratorium already shows three explicit political strands, each with its own assumptions and its own trajectory for the movement. 1) For the great majority… Read More »
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