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by Kai Molloy
To explain the endurance and commitment to anarchism by many American radicals throughout the twentieth century, most contemporary historians, scholars, and even radicals have repeatedly emphasized the social, political, economic, or cultural factors. When combined, these factors have sustained the credibility of anarchism as a social theory, philosophy, and practice in the [...]
The amorphous movement that has appeared on the scene of late—in North America, after Seattle, and around the world several years prior—exhibits an astonishing diversity of tactics, goals, and political beliefs. At the same time, this resurgence of radical politics is united in an equally varied critique of one phenomenon: globalization. Whether understood economically, politically, [...]
[Note: Left Green Perspectives was published between 1986 and 1998. The monetary figures listed with each issue represent the cover price at the time of publication; print editions are no longer available.]
Issue #1 (January 1986) $.50: “The Greening of Politics: Toward a New Kind of Political Practice,” by Murray Bookchin; “Radical Ecologist Fundis vs. [...]
Left Green Perspectives (formerly Green Perspectives)
A Social Ecology Publication
The Social Ecology Project
With the emergence of a new millennium, it should not be surprising that old socialist ideologies–borne of the Industrial Revolution–are no longer adequate to encompass the sweeping social changes that have occurred over the past two centuries. As transnational capitalism, [...]
The Unity of Ideals and Practice
by Murray Bookchin
Recently I have begun to encounter, especially among young people, individuals who call themselves “leftists” but who have little or no awareness of the most basic features of the Left’s longstanding analysis of capitalism, or of the history of the revolutionary movements that [...]
The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”:
Militia Fever
by Janet Biehl
At a time when the political sands have shifted massively to the right nearly everywhere, when the right is riding high while the left languishes in debris, it is increasingly common to hear the cry “Neither left nor right!” Few [...]
ANNALS OF ANARCHISM
Terror Reigns in Manhattan
by Michael D. Weiss
Editors’ note: The following article singles out a real crisis that is emerging in anarchism, not only in the U.S. but in Europe as well: the steady degeneration of a left-libertarian radical theory and practice into a bohemian, personalistic, and in many [...]
From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi
by Matthew Kalman and John Murray
Matthew Kalman and John Murray are editors of the eco-political investigative magazine Open Eye, which has been uncovering and exposing David Icke and “New Age Nazism.” Address: BM Open Eye, London WC1N 3XX. Issue 3 is available for £1.70.
It [...]
Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship?
by Markus Mathyl
Editors’ note: This article explores the affiliations of self-styled Communist parties in Russia with parties of the nationalist and fascist right. These groups share a common opposition to the government and policies of Boris Yeltsin and together constitute the “national-patriotic opposition.” The article [...]
When “Realism” Becomes Capitulation
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right,
changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary,
and does not consist wholly with anything which was.
–Thoreau
One of the most dangerous aspects of the present cultural and social counterrevolution is the widespread belief [...]
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