Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism - An Unbridgeable Chasm

Murray Bookchin

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 2005

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What can I say - a must read

What can I say - a must read for any contemporary anarchist. You'll benefit of reading it even if you consider yourself a social anarchist.

Anyone knows the exact date when this stuff was written?

i used to have a hard copy

i used to have a hard copy of this pamphlet (before my dad decided to throw out all my radical books one day)

it was one of my favorites.......