Through a body of political and philosophical ideas that he called
social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the
first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. According to
Bookchin, the causes of our present environmental problems lay in a
long history of social domination and exploitation, that only could
be remedied by a new liberatory project centered around direct
democratic cities, a moral economy and confederalism.
However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin's ideas
slipped from focus, obscured by the emergence of a crude caricature
of him as a dogmatic sectarian who intended to dominate the radical
left for his own personal motivations. In Recovering Bookchin,
political philosopher Andy Price recounts the debates between
Bookchin and the deep ecologists, the anarchists and primitivists,
identifying and critically discounting the Bookchin caricature as a
body of critique leveled against Bookchin the person rather than
his ideas.
Price argues that by looking afresh at his work, Bookchin's
contribution provides a coherent practical and theoretical response
to the ecological and social crises of our time.
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