This book asks–and tries to answer–several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society?
In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, “The Left That Was.”
Author: Murray Bookchin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 07/01/2001
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.28w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781873176832
Language: English
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