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mcwyss's review
4.0
Full of insightful critique’s of Bookchin’s work. I’m not sure that if they are incorporated into Social Ecology that they are enough to make a solid revolutionary movement of Social Ecology, but they certainly are helpful for sharpening the focus of the eco-anarchist movement and strengthening its foundations. Much of Bookchin’s writing on ethics, technology, and evolution is inconsistent or nonsensical, and this collection of essays makes that abundantly clear. It is evident that Bookchin’s thought alone cannot be the basis of a revolution, especially when it is so riddled with misunderstanding and misconception. Bookchin himself was not receptive to many of the arguments contained herein, and it seems to me that, in abandoning Marx, Bookchin lost Marx’s disdain for dogma. Marx writes, “it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”
drjohnbrown's review
The text was so academically complex that I found it nearly impossible to get through. I think I need to spend some more time with the subject and then come back to the book.
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