Bea Bookchin
Beatrice Bookchin worked alongside her former husband and lifelong friend Murray Bookchin for 57 years, contributing to the development of his theoretical ideas, co-founding Anarchos magazine with him in New York City, and later co-founding the Burlington Green Party. A longtime activist, she was one of three people who spearheaded the two-year battle against the […]
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism by Murray Bookchin
Available from AK Press here.
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin’s magnum opus, spanning anthropology, ecological philosophy, and revolutionary politics. Available here from AK Press. The Institute for Social Ecology has also run facilitated reading groups of The Ecology of Freedom, soon to be available in a self-directed course format.
“The Confederation as the Commune of Communes” by Debbie Bookchin and Sixtine van Outryve
Available here. Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale. From ROAR Magazine.
Debbie Bookchin
Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics by Murray Bookchin
Available from AK Press here.
Defending the Earth: A Debate, with Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
“Libertarian Municipalism: The Politics of Direct Democracy” by Murray Bookchin
“What Is Social Ecology?” by Murray Bookchin
From Social Ecology and Communalism (2007).
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was the core theorist of social ecology. He founded the Institute for Social Ecology with Dan Chodorkoff in 1974.