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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
What Is Social Ecology? (1984)
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965)
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.
Anarchism in America (1983)
Almost anyone, I suppose, can call himself or herself an anarchist, if he or she believed that the society could be managed without the state.
Anarchism in America (1983)
Abject misery alone does not produce revolutions; more often than not, it produces an aimless demoralization, or worse, a private, personalized struggle to survive.
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
Desire and Need (1967)
Once again the dead are walking in our midst- ironically, draped in the name of Marx, the man who tried to bury the dead of the nineteenth century.
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.
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
We argue that the problem is not to "abandon"Marxism or to "annul" it,but to transcend it dialectically, just as Marx transcended Hegelian philosophy, Ricardian economics, and Blanquist tactics and modes of organization.
It would be incredibly naive to suppose that Leninism was the product of a single man. The disease lies much deeper, not only in the limitations of Marxian theory but in the limitations of the social era that produced Marxism.