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From "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" - Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin)

"If the meshing of ecological and anarchist principles is ever achieved in practice, social life would yield a sensitive development of human and natural diversity, falling together into a well-balanced, harmonious unity. Ranging from community through region to entire continents, we would see a colorful differentiation of human groups and ecosystems, each developing its unique potentialities and exposing members of the community to a wide spectrum of economic, cultural, and behavioral stimuli. Falling within our purview would be an exciting, often dramatic, variety of communal forms — here marked by architectural and industrial adaptations to semiarid biomes, there to grasslands, elsewhere by adaptation to forested areas...

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... We would witness a dynamic interplay between individual and group, community and environment, humanity and nature. Freed from an oppressive routine, from paralyzing repressions and insecurities, from the burdens of toil and false needs, from the trammels of authority and irrational compulsion, individuals would finally be in a position, for the first time in history, to fully realize their potentialities as members of the human community and the natural world.

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Link below. You can get almost all of Bookchin's work there as pdfs and ebooks. "Remaking Society" is a good introduction. "The Ecology of Freedom" is one of the more difficult books. Worth it but expect to go slow. "Urbanization Without Cities", another long one well worth study. That said, there are many much shorter essays and books.

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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought

Ecology and Revolutionary Thought

Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin) Ecology and Revolutionary Thought 1964 Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the...

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