Murray Bookchin Citas

• Mientras persista la jerarquía, mientras la dominación organice a la humanidad en torno a un sistema de élites, el proyecto de dominación de la naturaleza seguirá existiendo y conducirá inevitablemente a nuestro planeta a la extinción ecológica.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Persistence, Long

  "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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• La suposición de que lo que existe actualmente debe existir necesariamente es el ácido que corroe todo pensamiento visionario.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Visionaries, Libertarian

  Murray Bookchin (1992). “Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• Si no hacemos lo imposible, nos enfrentaremos a lo impensable.

  Murray Bookchin

  Impossible, Petra, Unthinkable

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, p. 107, 2005.

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• Hablar de "límites al crecimiento" en una economía de mercado capitalista es tan absurdo como hablar de límites a la guerra en una sociedad guerrera. La moral de muchos ecologistas bienintencionados es tan ingenua como manipuladora es la moral de las multinacionales. No se puede "convencer" al capitalismo de que limite su crecimiento, como no se puede "convencer" a un ser humano de que deje de respirar. Los intentos de "enverdecer" el capitalismo, de hacerlo "ecológico", están condenados al fracaso por la propia naturaleza del sistema como sistema de crecimiento sin fin.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• El saqueo del espíritu humano por el mercado es paralelo al saqueo de la tierra por el capital.

  Murray Bookchin

  Earth, Libertarian, Spirit

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• Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creativity, Roots, Achievement

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.53, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

  Murray Bookchin

  Reality, Desire, Revolution

  "Desire and Need". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1967.

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• Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

  Murray Bookchin

  Cancer, Disease, Social

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• Peter Kropotkin describió el anarquismo como la extrema izquierda del socialismo, una opinión con la que estoy completamente de acuerdo. Una de mis mayores preocupaciones hoy en día es que el núcleo socialista libertario se vea erosionado por el individualismo místico, espiritualista, posmodernista y de moda.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

  Murray Bookchin

  Differences, Hierarchy, Function

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• An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

  Murray Bookchin

  Practice, Principles, Anarchist

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Power to the people' can only
  be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
  dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
  his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
  power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
  undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never
  have power until they disappear as a 'people.

  Murray Bookchin

  Media, Práctica, Gente

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• The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Years, Government

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

  Murray Bookchin

  Capitalist Economy, People, Feelings

  Fuente: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

  Murray Bookchin

  Animal, Hombres, Pensamiento

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.

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• No se puede "convencer" al capitalismo de que limite su crecimiento, como no se puede "convencer" a un ser humano de que deje de respirar. Los intentos de "enverdecer" el capitalismo, de hacerlo "ecológico", están condenados al fracaso por la propia naturaleza del sistema como sistema de crecimiento sin fin.

  Murray Bookchin

  Breathing, Growth, Green

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creating, People, Violence

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Subtle, Form, Sinister

  Fuente: reason.com

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• I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Isms, Surrender

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory of historical materialism. People were dragged into capitalism screaming, shouting, and fighting all along the way, trying to resist this industrial and commercial world.

  Murray Bookchin

  Reading, Fighting, People

  Fuente: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• Detesto la violencia. Siento un enorme respeto no sólo por la vida humana, sino también por la vida animal con la que tengo que convivir, y creo que nuestro destino como seres humanos es ser conscientes de la naturaleza además de ser conscientes de nosotros mismos, viviendo en una relación amorosa y en equilibrio y armonía, no sólo entre nosotros, sino con todo el mundo natural.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Destiny, Animal

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Eye, Technology, Long

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

  Murray Bookchin

  Recovery, Mean, Self

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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