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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.

— Murray Bookchin

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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)

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