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Murray Bookchin

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Murray Bookchin was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian and political philosopher influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx and Peter Kropotkin, and an early pioneer of the environmental movement. He formulated the theory of social ecology, arguing that ecological problems are rooted in social hierarchy and domination, and developed it within anarchist, libertarian socialist and ecological thought across two dozen books. Later in life he grew critical of what he saw as an increasingly apolitical lifestylism within the anarchist movement, stopped calling himself an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist framework called communalism. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1921 1
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1. Wikidata: Murray Bookchin
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Murray Bookchin (Wikipedia)
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    Murray Bookchin (; January 14, 1921, July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher.
  • Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
    Rather, Bookchin felt that our environmental predicament is the result of the cancerous logic of capitalism, a system aimed at maximizing profit instead of enriching human lives: "By the very logic of its grow-or-die imperative, capitalism may well be producing ecological crises that gravely imperil the integrity of life on this planet.
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