Murray Bookchin's polemical essay against the increasingly individualist, misanthropic, mystical and anti-organisational trends in US anarchism still holds relevance today, no less in Britain than the States.
Written in the mid-'90s, his emphasis on collective action to achieve meaningful change over the isolation and ineffectiveness of lifestyle politics should be considered by all those tempted to see anarchism as a subculture to join rather than a practice that informs their interaction within (rather than outside of) society. libcom.org 2005AttachmentSizeSocial Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism.pdf2.39 MB
- 1. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism
- 2. Individualist Anarchism and Reaction
- 3. Autonomy or Freedom
- 4. Anarchism as Chaos
- 5. Mystical and Irrationalist Anarchism
- 6. Against Technology and Civilisation
- 7. Mystifying the Primitive
- 8. Evaluating Lifestyle Anarchism
- 9. Towards a Democratic Communalism
- Notes