Association: Communalist Social Ecology “L'Adventice”
We reproduce here an article by Paul Boino who deciphers the ideas of Murray Bookchin and analyzes them in the light of libertarian communist ideas. An article published in 2001 on the website (the link is no longer available)…
Introduction “Man and the Earth” is the last great work of Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist and ecologist thinker of the 19th century. Published between 1905 and 1908, this six-volume encyclopedia offers a global vision of the history of humanity in…
“In Spain, there was a radical and change-bringing female subject before the suffragette movement” On the occasion of the publication of his essay “Las sin amo”, we return with Antonio Orihuela to the silenced history of a few women authors…
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian theorist and father of social ecology, is well known for his work on the interconnections between ecology and social struggle. In “The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years (1868-1936)”, published in 2001 by AK press editor, he…
The life of Murray Bookchin In 2020, reading “Libertarian Municipalism – The Politics of Social Ecology”, written by Janet Biehl, introduced me to Murray Bookchin. Since then, the theses he developed throughout his life have been an integral part of…
From this libertarian and anarchist lineage, for a century and a half the forerunners of Social Ecology and Communalism, this list will present the main works available. “Where the soil has become ugly, where all poetry has disappeared from the…
The Spanish Civil War, a pivotal period in the history of the 20th century, is also the one that has been the most obscured, the most distorted, the most betrayed. There are many reasons for this and they require some…
(1936-1937) I – The reason for the story II – The background: 1870-1936 1) Birth and consolidation, 1870-1920 2) The insurrection cycle, 1931-1933 3) Internal polarization of the CNT 4) The revolution of Asturias, 1934 III – The background 1)…
In this 1985 lecture, Murray Bookchin offers an essential reflection on the political and social structures that shape our understanding of freedom. He seeks to demonstrate that freedom cannot be limited to an individual or abstract conception, but must be…
Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire Rebellion, in the face of the extraordinary mediocrity and pettiness of present-day human society as it has been constructed under the growing pressure of capitalist domination and ideology over the last few centuries, has…
April 2020 1) We see a whole “citizenist” current seizing municipalism and communalism. Has the communalist revolution already been diluted in the lukewarm waters of social democracy? Indeed, a whole “citizens’ movement” sector has taken hold of municipalism, but without…
